Make Them Pay Attention Quotes

#1. Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

Bruce Campbell

#2. Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

Susan Marie

#3. One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.

Moby

#4. I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Justin Timberlake

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Ain't good to talk too much about infernal affairs if you can avoid it. Tends to make certain things stand up and pay attention.

Laura Oliva

#8. The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Socrates

#9. I am not smart, I pay attention.
I am not considerate, I listen.
I am not patient, I make time.
I'm not lucky, I work hard.

Mark W. Boyer

#10. No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.

Paul Goodman

#11. We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them ... as you make the effort.

Og Mandino

#13. At the moment you consciously make a choice, pay attention to your body and ask your body, "If I make this choice, what happens?" If your body sends a message of comfort, that's the right choice. If your body sends a message of discomfort, then it's not the appropriate choice.

Deepak Chopra

#14. Also, don't be afraid to make them get your hair, makeup, and lighting right. It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what you're trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what you're actually saying.

Tina Fey

#15. If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to be this, or that,' I'm proud to say I don't pay attention.

William T. Vollmann

#16. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#17. Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation ... Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand
the words go deep.

Peter Elbow

#18. I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

Two Chainz

#19. The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

Patrick Murphy

#20. I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.

Nicolas Cage

#21. The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

Ellen Goodman

#22. I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

Jack White

#23. At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

Martina Sorbara

#24. You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

Dane Cook

#25. Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

Eddie Vedder

#26. After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

Norman Doidge

#27. Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, I'm here, pay attention to me

Harvey Milk

#28. 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

#29. You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

Sanaya Roman

#30. If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.

Howard Rheingold

#31. As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

Jim Cramer

#32. Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention.

Habeeb Akande

#33. Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.

Alex Tabarrok

#34. When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back - the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law.

Anne Lamott

#35. words themselves are action; they do not simply describe the world but in a very real sense make the world. Therefore it makes sense to pay attention to the worlds people are attempting to create in their words.

John Scalzi

#36. You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

Milo Ventimiglia

#37. Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

Norman Vincent Peale

#38. 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

#39. Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

#40. 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

#41. To a truly remarkable extent, we're more likely to do something if it's convenient, and less likely if it's not. For this reason, we should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.

Gretchen Rubin

#42. 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

#43. Did you just grab my butt?" I whispered. "What?" "Curran!" "Yes?" I could hear controlled laughter in his voice. Unbelievable. I sped up. "We're tracking ghouls and you're grabbing my butt." "I always make sure to pay attention to important things.

Ilona Andrews

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

Paulo Coelho

#45. I didn't pay much attention to Jared until he blocked my view of the couple by standing in front of me. I almost protested, but then he turned his body and bent over. What I saw when he did was enough to make me start begging for him to undo the restraints holding me in the chair.

Candi Kay

#46. 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

#47. People who pay attention to their lives, watch for clues from their dreams, and then make adjustments in waking life based on the information in dreams, can follow the highest path in the direction that their lives are ultimately meant to go.

Teresa DeCicco

#48. What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.

Grace Gealey