Competing For Someone's Attention Quotes

#1. A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.

Tamara Mellon

#2. I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Nancy Gibbs

#3. The influx of competing messages that we receive whenever we go online not only overloads our working memory; it makes it much harder for our frontal lobes to concentrate our attention on any one thing. The process of memory consolidation can't even get started.

Nicholas Carr

#4. In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.

Al Sharpton

#5. A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

Harlan Coben

#6. Welcome to the first ever Selection Variety Show, starring a bunch of losers competing for your attention.

Kiera Cass

#7. I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

Brandon Flowers

#9. There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.

Josemaria Escriva

#10. There's nothing like competing for your boyfriend's attention with an emotionally needy sibling to make you feel like the worst sort of evil psycho-bitch.

Lauren Willig

#11. You're not just competing with other brands for their attention, you're also competing with their friends, family, music playlists, soccer games, and nights out on the town.

Bryan J. Kramer

#12. Now I saw this categorizing of my freezer food as a sign of the true chaos in my head.

Abraham Verghese

#13. In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Jan Egeland

#14. ...adding to the miseries competing for my attention...

Suzanne Collins

#15. There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

Maajid Nawaz

#16. Crying is always easier in the dark.

Rick Yancey

#17. Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.
-'Rhett

Rowena Cherry

#18. My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#19. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

Clinton Kelly

#20. 1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

Sam Altman

#21. I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

Barbara Delinsky

#22. Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Janine Di Giovanni