Attention Seek Quotes

#1. Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail - and who seek another form of success in the universal celebrity and attention they will receive through their extravagant homicides.

Elliott Leyton

#2. We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

Alain De Botton

#3. 'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

Amy Bloom

#4. Take time to see the quiet miracles that
seek no attention

John O'Donohue

#5. Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

Jemima Khan

#6. Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Wilfred Grenfell

#7. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

James D. Bradley

#8. I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

Peter Benchley

#9. I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.

Sara Bareilles

#10. Take care of yourself,forgive and forget the past and live the future you seek to see, listen to and pay attention to your next breath,go after the desires of your heart with all your passion and intellect,and above all live the that you want to lead.

K.J. Kilton

#11. The great thing about baseball is, I've heard a hundred statements beginning, 'The great thing about baseball is.

Jon Sindell

#12. In the realm of love and sex, it's girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

#13. What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen with all my being, I am completely interested. I seek momentarily a full communion of eyes, feelings, thoughts.

Anais Nin

#14. Your opponent will often be blind to your design, being consumed with his own. Do not subconsciously seek accolades of your ingenuity and thus call attention - be sated by your own approval. Be confident you will win.

Shannon Kirk

#15. Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#16. Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Some seek the light and hold the light in place. Erik Fiskare didn't like being the center of attention, but he liked situations where he had to keep the attention centered.

Suanne Laqueur

#18. The first stage of the awakening journey is the calling. The calling arrives when we first feel that spiritual impulse that galvanizes our attention. All of a sudden we sense a greater mystery to life that we seek to experience more deeply; it literally calls us.

Adyashanti

#19. Ignore folly;
walk away from it.
Pay attention to wisdom;
seek it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

Francois Fenelon

#21. There is so much good. So much grace. So much pouring into the river. A quiet water, this river of grace. Its work done in ways that do not seek attention. Yet it is there. Always there. A

Lisa Wingate

#22. Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.

Paul Fussell

#23. I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#24. I have no inclination to seek attention.

John Scarlett

#25. The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.

Daniel Kahneman

#26. The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.

Milan Kundera

#27. People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.

Denis Waitley

#28. That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

James Taylor

#29. Boys seek attention, men demand respect.

Habeeb Akande

#30. This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

Anne Wilkes Tucker

#31. All of this is because our conscious mind is intended as a focusing tool, not a storage place. When we seek to keep all the things we have to do in our head, they constantly pull at our attention and become a large source of our stress.

Matt Perman

#32. The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

Will Smith