QUOTES

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

“Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things.”

“The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it. ”

"Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."

"There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty."

"Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it."

"It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!"

"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."

"It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention."

"I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted."

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

"In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause."

"Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements."

"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic"

"A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching and so forth. The more dramatic organization does catch attention quicker. Over the long haul, however, it's a lot more difficult to keep together because you're not building solid...A lasting organization is one in which people will continue to build, develop and move when you are not there."

"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."

"A person's got to fight for every single thing they get,' she said slowly. 'And I've noticed a lot of times that the farther down a kid comes in the family the better the kid really is."

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