To Get Someone's Attention Quotes

#1. Sometimes if I really want to get someone's attention, I'll start a sentence with something like, "I'm not racist, but ... " I say, "I'm not racist, but you look great today." They say, "That wasn't racist at all." I said, "I know. I said I'm not racist. You never listen. Typical Mexican."

Demetri Martin

#2. You see, most people play louder to get someone's attention, but getting quieter can stop a bull from charging.

Victor L. Wooten

#3. If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.

Seth

#4. I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.'

Becky G

#5. To get someone's attention
say three words with compassion.
Say "I love you", more than me,
like the river loves the sea.

Debasish Mridha

#6. To get someone's attention break a pattern of thinking.

Chip Heath

#7. The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

Chip Heath

#8. In general, there are usually two reasons to swear--to get someone's attention and because it's fun.

Aaron Burch

#9. Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Salma Hayek

#10. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#11. The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention

David Sedaris

#12. You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

Wallace D. Wattles

#13. Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.

Derrick Rose

#14. Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.

Dan Cohen

#15. Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.

Amit Ray

#17. Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention ... But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

William James

#18. Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.

Keith Teare

#19. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

#20. 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

#21. The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.

Clare Morgan

#22. The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

Nancy Kress

#23. Sugar" he starts, before turning his attention back over to Dee, " I have thought about sex, hard fucking sex, about a hundred times since we sat down to eat." Looking back over to me, " Does that clear it up for you?

Harper Sloan

#24. Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.

Liu Cixin

#25. Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

Romeo Dallaire

#26. I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

Vanessa L. Williams

#27. I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

George Clooney

#28. When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Tim O'Brien

#29. I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

Aaron Schock

#30. Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

Regina Brett

#31. It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

Karen Thompson Walker

#32. The purpose of a headline is to pick out people you can interest. You wish to talk to someone in a crowd. So the first thing you say is, "hey there, Bill Jones" to get the right persons attention.so it is in n advertisement

Claude C. Hopkins

#33. When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener ... where it is watered.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Michael Forte

#35. It really is a terrifying experience to be buzzed like that if you cannot see the airplane coming. You cannot hear it coming, at that speed, until it is just a fraction of a second away. Then the noise hits you like a bomb blast. You can really get someone's attention like that.

Milton O. Thompson

#36. On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel.

Seth Shostak

#37. More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

Ingrid Newkirk

#38. Finding someone to put down, judge, or criticize becomes a way to get out of the web or call attention away from our box. If you're doing worse than I am at something, I think, my chances of surviving are better.

Brene Brown

#39. I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Michael Franti

#40. A girl who pays attention is very cool. It's really hard to pay attention to someone. I understand. I get it. I get bored a lot when I'm talking to people, but I try. So I'd like for the girl to try, too.

Chris D'Elia

#41. It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

Cory Monteith

#42. Echoes can't read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too.

Dew Pellucid

#43. 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

#44. The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

Rachel McAdams

#45. A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

Dan Savage

#46. To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

J. Michael Straczynski

#47. A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Christian Bale

#48. You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

Dave Eggers

#49. It's too bad war gets all the attention; it's too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

Cameron Conaway

#50. No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Christy Mathewson

#51. All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.

Rainbow Rowell

#52. I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#53. Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.

Czeslaw Milosz

#54. One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Thomas Menino

#55. Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was a response to her effort to get her mother to pay attention to her, to love her, and to love her as much as she loved her brothers.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#56. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Zig Ziglar

#57. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

Radka Donnell

#58. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life.

Paul O'Brien

#59. Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

Andrew Carnegie

#60. They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.

Rainbow Rowell

#61. 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

#62. He loves to be the center of attention. I hate it. He is the king of the school. I do not want to be the queen. I

Kasie West

#63. Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Andy Warhol

#64. Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

Saul Leiter

#65. Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.

Frederick Lenz

#66. There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#67. Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A
purpose?"
"Is Annah still wearing clothes?"
"Affirmatory."
"Then the answer is yes.

Chris Avellone

#68. If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

Deepak Chopra

#69. When I say I have a big dick, it's not a shit-talking attention-seeking ploy to impress a girl.

Charisse Spiers

#70. not every praise deserves your full attention

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#71. The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

John Green

#72. Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

Olivia Thirlby

#73. The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.

John Haggai

#74. People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

Marco Arment

#75. The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And focusing all the attention on it is I think a mistake.

Noam Chomsky

#76. I don't know . . . there's just something about him. You radiate joy and sunshine, and he seems like more of a wet blanket who wants all the attention for himself. Everyone loves you here. I'm just looking out for you," she shares apologetically as she comfortingly cups Julie's hand.

Sheri Fink

#77. 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

#78. There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.

Richard Branson

#79. You're not where you were, and you're not where you're going. You're here, so pay attention!

Maryrose Wood

#80. Care for your infant business or career as you would care for your infant child - with loving attention, with no expectation of any reward, being in the moment with it, accepting it as is, watching it grow, enjoying every step of the way.

Marc Allen

#81. Motivated people are passionate! They love what they do and they are full of themselves (in the nicest possible way). Their enthusiasm and excitement are catching and they attract other people's interest and attention.

Lynda Field

#82. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Samuel Alexander

#83. I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

Scarlett Johansson

#84. If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Russell Banks

#85. I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.

Liam Hemsworth

#86. Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Mark Strand