Don't Pay Attention Quotes

#1. I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

Paul Haggis

#2. I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

Fred Couples

#3. Don't look.
See.
Don't think.
Feel.
Don't hear.
Listen.
Pay attention
Miracles really do happen every day

A.D. Posey

#4. As the Russians say: 'If you don't pay attention to politics, politics pays attention to you.

Marc Bennetts

#5. Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

Joel Spolsky

#6. Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Toni Morrison

#7. When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Betty White

#8. Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.

Evan Daugherty

#9. Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

Ronald Reagan

#10. In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues.

Yuval Noah Harari

#11. If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

Dean Rusk

#12. We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.

Cameron Russell

#13. It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

Robert Redford

#14. Pay attention to the road, Sensei. I know how you prefer to look at me while I'm blowing you, but I don't want to die choking on your dick after you wreck your fancy car.

Lorelei James

#15. You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

Norton Juster

#16. I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.

Danielle De Niese

#17. Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

Holly Valance

#18. I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I don't pay attention to that, either.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. On still another road, a green-haired man wobbled by on peppermint-stick stilts; a fiery-plumed bird of paradise perched on his shoulder. But he's not in this story, so don't pay any attention to him.

Christopher Healy

#21. I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

Sue Grafton

#22. You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.

J Dilla

#23. Don't pay attention to those who offer too much.

Dejan Stojanovic

#24. People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

Erin Morgenstern

#25. How People Learn. If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.

John Medina

#26. Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

Michael Pollan

#27. Don't listen to the voice in your head, but pay close attention to the voice of your heart.

Maria Teresa De Donato

#28. I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

Jeff Tweedy

#29. I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Virat Kohli

#30. people don't pay attention to boring things

John Medina

#31. pay attention to that little voice inside your head that sends you prompts, insights, and hunches. Note things that you don't understand, and rather than shying away from them, turn them into questions to pursue.

Todd Henry

#32. I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and vote. It doesn't matter; you can believe whatever you want to believe, but this is the time everybody should be paying a lot of attention.

Andrew McMahon

#33. I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

Brooke Burke

#34. Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

Chen-Ning Yang

#35. She can't see it, Joss. We're at the far end of the electromagnetic spectrum here, surrounded by gamma rays. I know school isn't your favorite thing, but honestly, don't you pay attention at all?

Wendy Mass

#36. Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones.

Mark Matteson

#37. I don't pay attention to the
world Ending.
It has ended for me
many Times
and began again in the morning.

Nayyirah Waheed

#38. There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

W.S. Merwin

#39. I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

Tom Glavine

#40. A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him

Steven Sample

#41. If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Reggie Watts

#42. From here you don't see any borders," he said. "Lines on a map. Amazing that we pay them so much attention.

Laurence Moroney

#43. All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

Michael Strahan

#44. He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but from what the man said, I had to believe that sometime in the recent past the laws regarding sedition must have changed.

Jeff Lindsay

#45. But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

Barney Frank

#46. When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.

Jenna Morasca

#47. Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Jerry Seinfeld

#48. I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#49. I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

Ronald Burkle

#50. I don't know what this will make you think of me," I said.
"That any man who's with you better pay attention, or they'll find you gone.

C.D. Reiss

#51. I notice you use 'work' and 'job' interchangeably. oughten to do that. A job's what you force yourself to pay attention to for money. With work, you don't have to force yourself. (Man dining at Claudia Sanders Dinner House)

William Least Heat-Moon

#52. You must however pay attention to the fact that we don't only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc.

Sunday Adelaja

#53. Don't you want to fall into bed and let me pay special attention to you all day?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#54. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

Paulo Coelho

#55. I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Dalai Lama

#56. I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.

Neil Gaiman

#57. Forget about counting calories," she would always advise them. "Once you develop a knack for choosing the proper ingredients and eating in moderation, you don't have to pay attention to numbers.

Haruki Murakami

#58. I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.

Cesar Millan

#59. A Tip from Bonnie Sue: God is the ultimate band director. Pay close attention, because you don't want to get ahead of him. Stick with him in perfect timing, and he will make a beautiful melody out of your life.

Janice Thompson

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

Matthew McConaughey

#61. Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back ... I'm telling you.

Matthew Quick

#62. I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.

Dan Dierdorf

#63. You shouldn't pay attention to things that don't grab your attention. If you do, you're being a pretentious douchebag.

Paul Jarvis

#64. If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.

Dale Carnegie

#65. Don't pay attention to the people that hate you but why they do, as that's where you find your real value and uniqueness.

Daniel Marques

#66. Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

Dennis Miller

#67. If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

David Allen

#68. The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Bill Vaughan

#69. I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

Stephan Pastis

#70. I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

Clint Eastwood

#71. You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

Philip Pullman

#72. People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

Martin Walser

#73. Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

Muhammad Yunus

#74. The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

Azim Premji

#75. I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

Scott Baio

#76. You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

Joseph Campbell

#77. There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

Baratunde Thurston

#78. My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

Jonas Mekas

#79. If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

Julian Barnes

#80. Being "America's Sweetheart", that label gets put on a lot of people. I don't pay that much attention. And I'm not trying to shake anything. I'm just following my instincts and doing work that is coming to me and I'm just grateful for it.

Jennifer Aniston

#81. Our problem is that we don't pay attention to what we actually know. We give our attention to what we think - to what we have ideas or beliefs about - and we discard what we actually see.

Steve Hagen

#82. I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself ... and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

Miles Davis

#83. I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.

John Kasich

#84. I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#85. I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

PJ Harvey

#86. I don't pay attention to the ratings.

Martha Plimpton

#87. When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

Meryl Streep

#88. Since mistakes of omission don't appear in the financial statements, most people don't pay attention to them. We rub our noses in mistakes of omission - as we just did.

Charlie Munger

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

David Allen

#90. There's death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don't pay attention. Until we do.

Cynthia Hand

#91. Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

Billy Sherwood

#92. Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.

Laura Bush

#93. Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

Louis C.K.

#94. 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.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#95. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#96. If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Elizabeth Gillies

#97. I pay attention. Nothing more than that."
"You make it sound like it's no big deal to pay attention when the sad fact is, most people don't. It takes a lot of energy to listen.

Lauren Dane

#98. I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

Ellen DeGeneres

#99. Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering.

John Hawkins

#100. I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player.

Jim Bowden