Top 100 My Attention Quotes
#1. What happened December 12?" Polyester asks.
I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted.
He hit me."
The bug slides to the floor.
Alex Flinn
#2. Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.
Caroline Myss
#3. But as I glared up at Hawkins, I realized he was only looking down at me. "You got my attention. Now what are you going to do with it?" He said into the microphone.
Leah Spiegel
#4. When I first heard John Smith my attention was captured by his sweet, earthy voice and fine craftsmanship, but what drew me in was his heart. It's clear that he's lived the pain in his songs and that his optimism is hope born of wisdom. That's a rare thing and a gift to all who hear him.
Tom Kimmel
#5. I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.
Andrea Hirata
#6. You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.
Steve Albini
#7. Hey, aren't we forgetting something? (Savitar)
Your dignity? (Takeshi)
No, you have me confused with you again. Aren't you supposed to be training him? (Savitar)
So you admit my superiority by deflecting my attention to the neophyte. (Takeshi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.
Sylvia Earle
#9. almost automatic response: "That's just a senseless obsession. It's a false message. I'm going to focus my attention on something else." At this point, the automatic transmission in your brain begins to start working properly again.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#10. During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
Paul Nurse
#11. The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Robert Musil
#12. If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
Hugh Prather
#13. I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.
Shakira
#14. Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words, not everything has to be an over-the-top Broadway musical to get my attention, but it certainly helps.
Julie Klausner
#15. Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl's laugh grabbed my attention.
Melissa Darnell
#16. An hour later and a faint movement caught my eye. Mum was weakly flapping her hand, beckoning me to her. I had no idea how long she had been trying to attract my attention. As I bent over to catch her last words she whispered, 'turn that bloody music off
Laura Marney
#17. The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
Patrick Carney
#18. For me to start working, projects have to catch my attention whether they are here (in the USA) or in Mexico. All I want is to be involved in projects that are interesting to me, projects that are a challenge wherever they may happen, in Spain, in China, or in Hollywood.
Kate Del Castillo
#19. The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#20. I don't talk to the groupies. I talk to nice, upstanding women. The groupies don't get my attention. It's the women that I like.
Drake
#21. When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
John Schneider
#22. Judge me all you want, say what you wanna say, but you, you, you, don't deserve my attention!
Me
#23. When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
Larry Gagosian
#24. My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.
Karen Kingston
#25. My two most unproductive days of the week have always been yesterday and tomorrow. Keeping that in mind, I try to focus majority of my attention on today.
Mark W. Boyer
#26. The only way for a women to get my attention is to be you
Sylvia Day
#27. If I'd known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and
given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer's arms and I needed
the distraction Nicole provided.
Abbi Glines
#28. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#29. I can't be impressed by anything, O son of man.
But you surely draw my attention when cornered.
Toba Beta
#30. I pressed my lips together, trying to find a safe place to focus my attention. He filled the entire shower stall, his skin clean and wet, every part of him chiseled. His gym shorts clung to a package I had no business noticing.
Lisa Kessler
#31. It's been very clearly brought to my attention that I had overlooked your security in public restrooms.
R.K. Lilley
#32. Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
Ville Valo
#33. Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
Hal Sparks
#35. Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#36. I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#37. Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
Linwood Barclay
#38. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#39. Ooh la la! A real gothic romance, I don't doubt. What secrets and scandals it must contain." She wagged her eyebrows comically. "Now that's a book that might very well hold my attention.
Julie Klassen
#40. I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings.
Tod Machover
#41. He could focus my attention on how perfectly sublime life can be at times. Such moments are ephemeral, and without his guidance I might have missed many of them, working so hard to get somewhere that I would fail to recognize when I had arrived.
Kevin Hearne
#42. At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
Zig Ziglar
#43. I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.
David Bowie
#44. That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
D.H. Lawrence
#46. And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.
Marya Hornbacher
#48. ...adding to the miseries competing for my attention...
Suzanne Collins
#49. My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.
Selena Gomez
#50. If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.
Courtney Love
#51. Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
Busy Philipps
#52. The worry question: "What can I do about it right now?" If I can't do anything about it right now, it is not a priority and does not deserve my attention.
Karlyle Tomms
#53. Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else... That someone else is you.
Brey King
#54. Do you think people can change?" I ask Rick
"Yes." he answers plainly. "There are those who can."
That grabs my attention. "So you believe it's possible?"
"Miss Stella."He gives me his teacher-to-pupil stare. "Its boils down to choice.
Katie McGarry
#55. Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.
Sarvenaz Tash
#56. The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about?
David Mitchell
#57. A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.
Chuck Inglish
#58. I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#59. This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#60. My attention was riveted to Keirran.
He shot me a pained, embarrassed wince. "Yeah. I was going to tell you ... sooner or later. There just wasn't a good time." He paused, his voice going very soft. "I'm sorry ... Uncle.
Julie Kagawa
#61. You have my attention.
I know you want a motorcycle or you will think you want one for a while.
Well, I don't have one.
But I have an unusual heart.
And you can have it if you want it.
Jamie Tworkowski
#62. I can't figure you out. You're the first girl that's ever been disgusted with me before sex. You don't get all flustered when you talk to me, and you don't try to get my attention.
Jamie McGuire
#63. I owe a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay and also I owed a debt to everyone who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't got to be a person yet
John Green
#64. A piercing screech from above caught my attention. However, it was the arm landing beside me with teeth marks that let me know what was going on.
"Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?"
- Faith, Witch Devotions
Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
#65. Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#66. Wen he pulled away e smiled as he said, "I'm on a mission to make you like hockey more than baseball."
"Unless you are wearing tight baseball pants, you aren't keeping my attention.
Toni Aleo
#67. I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It allows me to enjoy life, experiencing everything that I perceive, exploring the events that hook my attention, modifying what I can change, and letting go of whatever I cannot.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#68. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way
my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to
make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
Nora Ephron
#69. I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.
Sarah Zettel
#70. If it's a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score.
Marco Beltrami
#71. I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.
Brant Daugherty
#72. What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition.
Pattiann Rogers
#73. It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.
Jacob Ruppert
#74. But then, at meals, my attention is pretty well riveted on the foodstuffs.
P.G. Wodehouse
#75. The sad truth is, I am a martyr to my own sense of order. All untidiness, all want of system and regularity, cause me the acutest irritation. My attention is distracted, my composure is upset;
Wilkie Collins
#76. My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
Ashwin Sanghi
#77. Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.
John Powell
#78. Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan
Helen Boswell
#79. At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on.
George W. Bush
#80. Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.
Mindy McCready
#81. It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!
George W. Bush
#82. What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?"
"You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.
Maria V. Snyder
#83. The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
Al Yankovic
#84. And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed ... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.
Reg Butler
#85. I guess we can start at the end but it's really the middle. Let's just call it the really bad part. My second wife, Mishna, brought it to my attention that I had an anger problem. She didn't say it like that. What she said was, "I'm leaving." Then she took her vagina and left.
Marc Maron
#86. I always thought New York City would be romantic, like a boyfriend who would kiss my hand and throw rocks at my window to get my attention.
Hannah Brencher
#87. Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.
Amit Kalantri
#88. Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort.
Georgia Salpa
#89. I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal
conscious or unconscious
of every religion.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.
Toba Beta
#91. I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
Kevin Spacey
#92. The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#93. Just a few weeks before, no detail of my life had been big enough to merit my attention.
Amor Towles
#94. Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.
Manil Suri
#95. For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved.
Milo Ventimiglia
#96. Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.
Kenneth H. Cooper
#97. I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
Octavia Butler
#98. I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
Brandon Routh
#99. I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.
Marilynne Robinson
#100. I don't really read reviews ... That's not where my attention goes.
Lena Dunham
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