I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.

Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

Being gay has never been a big deal to me, which is why it's a little funny to be getting all this attention about it.

Instant fame, attention, getting flown around the world and those other fringe benefits never really rang true for me.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

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