Get Attention Quotes

#1. When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.

Victoria Beckham

#2. Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Bob Kerrey

#3. Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

Brad Listi

#4. You can have all the brains in the world, but it takes a body to get most men's attention.

Jillian Dodd

#5. People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

Carl Sagan

#6. But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

Juice Newton

#7. It's part of me to get off on those moments where ... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.

Robert Plant

#8. I want to be around you whenever I can. Doesn't matter what we're doing. You don't have to take your clothes off to get my attention. All you have to do is look my way. Exist.

Ranae Rose

#9. It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist?

David Sedaris

#10. I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

Marianne Faithfull

#11. I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. I think it must be hard being David. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention.

Billie Piper

#13. I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

John Buchan

#14. On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

Kevin Systrom

#15. But as the business grows, you get more attention and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give it less to what you're doing.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#16. The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

Al Roker

#17. We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

Shawn Amos

#18. You don't get the attention of gluttons by starving anorexics.

Paul McCulley

#19. In actuality Boaz respected and recognized Ruth's character first. As a result he held her in high regard. You can instantly catch a man's attention, but if you don't have his respect you won't get the relationship you deserve.

Stephan Labossiere

#20. Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

Bubba Sparxxx

#21. But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. "Don't bother me know," said Howl. "I only did it for the money." "Liar!"said Sophie. "I said," Michael said, "that Calcifer's come back!" That did get Howl's attention and Sophie's too.

Diana Wynne Jones

#22. I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk ... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

Zac Efron

#23. Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

Frederick Lenz

#24. And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us.

Cherie Priest

#25. 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

#26. Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.

Howard S. Becker

#27. When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.

Ani DiFranco

#28. The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.

Tamora Pierce

#29. It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.

Keegan Bradley

#30. Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

Cynthia Lord

#31. Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity.

Marshall McLuhan

#32. If you get too slow, the listener's attention wanders and the information is lost.

Orson Scott Card

#33. While you are busy eyeing the progress of others, you lose sight of your own opportunities. Handle your own business and get your personal affairs in order. Paying too much attention to someone else's blessings will ultimately cost you your own.

Carlos Wallace

#34. If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.

John Irving

#35. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And

Malcolm Gladwell

#36. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. It's a vivid picture and a strong warning, and the same response we'll get whenever we try to get our fulfillment from a false god - from anyone or anything apart from the one true God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#37. I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.

Kristopher Belman

#38. We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

John Steinbeck

#39. What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

Keri Smith

#40. Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

Molly Quinn

#41. There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

Ali MacGraw

#42. You can have my time, and you can have my attention," he said, words slow and deliberate. "Sweetheart, you can have whatever the fuck you want, I promise. Whatever you need. No more holding back, no more fear. And if you still feel you have to get on that plane tonight, then we're doing it together.

Kylie Scott

#43. Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

Ruth Rendell

#44. I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Brian Wilson

#45. There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Emma Roberts

#46. I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

Ronald Reagan

#47. The first step is always one of surrender. Not my will but your will be done. I believe the fastest way to get God's attention and become fruitful in the Kingdom is to surrender yourself to him.

Steve Uppal

#48. Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.

Frederick Lenz

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

Denis Waitley

#50. I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.

Marlee Matlin

#51. The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

Dax Shepard

#52. Distinguish yourself [ ... ] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.

Karen Marie Moning

#53. Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention."
"Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

Pseudonymous Bosch

#54. Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Barack Obama

#55. Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

James Cook

#56. I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.

Cecily Brown

#57. As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

Lesley Garrett

#58. You want to be loved without risking consequence, so you reach out to get the attention you need while enjoying the luxury of taking no responsibility for those words." I

Penelope Douglas

#59. When you do bigger jobs there's more attention and when you film in New York you get loads of paparazzi everywhere. It affects your work because you're trying to think about the person you're acting with and you've got 20 other lenses taking pictures of you at the same time, and it throws you.

Carey Mulligan

#60. There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.

Charles Stross

#61. Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete

Claude C. Hopkins

#62. It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

Benjamin Carson

#63. We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

Brenda Shoshanna

#64. I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through ... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

D. B. Sweeney

#65. There's little things like that, that we paid a lot of attention to. We don't always know how to bond together to get help or to do something, and our attempts are often awkward, selfish or weird. We talked a lot about how to open things up.

Remi Aubuchon

#66. Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

Danny Meyer

#67. The way to get through normal life is to pretend it isn't getting to you. If you let on that you're hurt, the other animals will turn on you and tear you to pieces. Don't attract the attention of predators.

Emma Bull

#68. When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

Rick Perlstein

#69. Diseased organs get the most attention.

Marty Rubin

#70. What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

Roger N. Walsh

#71. These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

Anne Lamott

#72. When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#73. I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.

Allen West

#74. You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Newt Gingrich

#75. I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

Erich Fromm

#76. As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

John Zorn

#77. As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

Tina Turner

#78. And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself. - The Sacred Echo

Margaret Feinberg

#79. I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

Sienna Miller

#80. I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

Ray Stevens

#81. My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the book. I want to get people's attention and tell them very valuable and ultimately hopeful information, and you find out nothing is as scary as your imagination.

Amanda Ripley

#82. It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Viggo Mortensen

#83. I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

Brian Reynolds Myers

#84. And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

Cassandra Clare

#85. We of course pay the most attention to labels when they're attached to people. In terms of superficial compatibility, self-described Democrats and Republicans get along the least of all major groups on OkCupid - worse even than Protestants and Atheists.

Anonymous

#86. We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame. It's easier to get busted in the bedroom with the faculty chairman's wife than it is to finish that dissertation on the metaphysics of motley in the novellas of Joseph Conrad.

Steven Pressfield

#87. In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

Sara Paretsky

#88. That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

Oprah Winfrey

#89. Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get you to pay attention.

Michael Forte

#90. It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

A. Philip Randolph

#91. It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

David Ogilvy

#92. I don't know if we'll ever get used to the attention from the fans.

Louis Tomlinson

#93. Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

Robert Crippen

#94. When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

Steven Wright

#95. Though he had touched her bared skin - purely to get her attention. Had nothing to do with being drawn to her beauty like a bug to the neon light that would be its death. No,

Jules Barnard

#96. I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

Michael Gove

#97. I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.

David Beckham

#98. Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful.

Israelmore Ayivor

#99. If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or fill in career blank - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

Cris Mazza

#100. In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.

Danny Meyer