Extra Attention Quotes

#1. Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

Marcus Samuelsson

#2. The idea that someone, man or woman, should receive any kind of extra attention or affection or popularity or respect or adulation, simply because of a quirk of genetics and some arbitrary male-media-defined subjective notion of 'beauty' seems to me inherently wrong and unacceptable.

David Nicholls

#3. I'm not flirting. I'm just paying extra attention to someone who's very attractive.

Kristen Proby

#4. When a teacher is paying extra attention to your child, you believe that it's because you raised such an exceptional kid, one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of her booger-eating friends.

Drew Magary

#5. It is that little bit of extra attention that makes all the difference.

Debasish Mridha

#6. You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.

Chick Corea

#7. When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.

Jane McGonigal

#8. Like people, plants respond to extra attention.

H. Peter Loewer

#9. Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas A Kempis

#10. Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Edmund White

#11. Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

Jerry Saltz

#12. A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.
She would make it light enough to float away.
She reached over to open the window.
To float to her daughter.

Sarah Addison Allen

#13. Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will automatically reject novels that don't fit their narrow standards of length - or will chop out extra wordage to make a novel fit.

Piers Anthony

#14. Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people, and it's not necessarily something that needs to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.

Jasika Nicole

#15. A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."

Mitch Hedberg

#16. I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.

Kelly Clarkson

#17. Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

Sophie Thompson

#18. In every lifetime there is a moment. A moment so clear, so profoundly unique; that it stands out against billions of other moments. When you find a moment such as this one, you pay extra close attention to it. It will usually contain something that defines you in the future. (The Children of Ankh)

Kim Cormack

#19. Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Albert Einstein

#21. A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time

Marjan Van Den Belt

#22. Be strong. Don't be a follower. Always do the right thing.

Jennifer Lawrence

#23. Trying is the first step toward failure

Homer Simpson

#24. You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Alan Shepard

#25. When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.

Michael Harris

#26. In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Irwin Shaw