Quotes About Competing For Attention

#1. A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing for attention at a highly televised event.

Tamara Mellon

#2. There's nothing like competing for your boyfriend's attention with an emotionally needy sibling to make you feel like the worst sort of evil psycho-bitch.

Lauren Willig

#3. Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Janine Di Giovanni

#4. I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

Barbara Delinsky

#5. 1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

Sam Altman

#6. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

Clinton Kelly

#7. My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#8. My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

Rudolf Virchow

#9. There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

Maajid Nawaz

#10. Opiates are compounds derived from opium and include morphine, codeine, and a variety of related alkaloids. The term opioid is broader and includes all compounds (alkaloids or peptides) that have affinity for opioid receptors.

Alex S. Evers

#11. ...adding to the miseries competing for my attention...

Suzanne Collins

#12. I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

Isabel Gillies

#13. While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. The professor stared straight ahead. He felt Husam's eyes upon him. He clenched his hands together tightly, lest their shaking reveal everything.

Christian F. Burton

#15. In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Jan Egeland

#16. You're not just competing with other brands for their attention, you're also competing with their friends, family, music playlists, soccer games, and nights out on the town.

Bryan J. Kramer

#17. I think most folks are good folks.

Judge Mills Lane

#18. It's not the speed that will help you succeed. It's the right DIRECTION.

Mohith Agadi

#19. Proverbs 31:27: She looketh well to the way of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Sandra Dallas

#20. I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

Malcolm Gladwell

#21. Welcome to the first ever Selection Variety Show, starring a bunch of losers competing for your attention.

Kiera Cass

#22. A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

Harlan Coben

#23. In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.

Al Sharpton

#24. It is good to feel small beneath the sparkling northern lights, small beside the mighty river. Nature is so close to us up here. My troubles and difficulties just shrivel up. I like being insignificant.

Asa Larsson

#25. Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred.

Yasuo Kuwahara

#26. A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#27. 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

#28. I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Nancy Gibbs

#29. He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

J.R. Ward