Top 100 Too Much Attention Quotes
#1. I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.
Emraan Hashmi
#2. I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable.
Julianne Moore
#3. God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.
Felix Wantang
#4. In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
Elizabeth Goudge
#5. All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.
Lucas Till
#6. I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.
Thomas Kinkade
#7. There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?
Julian Schnabel
#8. Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
Holly Valance
#9. You never wanted to stand out. You never wanted to attract too much attention, because some of that attention would be bad.
Michelle Sagara
#10. Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it.
Philip Kotler
#13. The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu
#14. I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.
Brooke Burke
#15. I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#16. I spent a lot of time vacillating between wanting to be seen as attractive, being terrified by too much attention, and wanting to succeed and fit in without anyone's noticing me.
Kim Gordon
#17. I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
Yvonne Strahovski
#18. yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely?
Carol Goodman
#19. 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
#20. If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.
Michael Josephson
#21. Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
Jane Austen
#22. If you pay too much attention to hate, they win ... they bring you down. Too much love in the world to deal with that nonsense. Be positive.
Justin Bieber
#23. I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.
PJ Harvey
#24. In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
Peter Higgs
#25. The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
C. K. Prahalad
#26. If you are an artist who pays too much attention this system and its politics, you are in deep trouble because you have become a follower.
John Seed
#27. Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.
Katherine Howe
#28. Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.
Neil Peart
#29. In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are ... show them some love.
Matt Kemp
#30. It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.
Christopher Logue
#31. Are you a controlling parent? Are you devoting too much attention to your child? If the answer is yes, then turn some of that attention toward your parents. If you are good to your own parents, then your child will learn how to treat you in the future.
Haemin Sunim
#32. Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.
Price Pritchett
#33. I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
Marat Safin
#34. I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#35. If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt.
Chico Xavier
#36. If I paid too much attention to naysayers or let encouragers bloat my ego, I'd lose focus on what mattered: the company.
Anonymous
#37. Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.
Victoria Glendinning
#38. People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
Ridley Scott
#39. Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient
Ammon Shea
#40. I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.
Mehcad Brooks
#41. A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. If Eleanor paid too much attention, she hated him.
Rainbow Rowell
#43. Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
Plato
#44. The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
Theodore Roosevelt
#45. I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.
Novak Djokovic
#46. am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.
Helen MacInnes
#47. Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you.
Wallace D. Wattles
#48. The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street.
Dave Brat
#49. Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.
Francis Collins
#50. When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
B.B. King
#51. When daddies want to be left in peace, they don't pay too much attention to what you do
Gunilla Bergstrom
#52. Sharp lines draw too much attention to themselves, like vanity. And what's vanity but a series of sharp lines which have yet to be softened?
Glenn Haybittle
#53. Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.
Spencer Abraham
#54. We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.
James Florio
#55. Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.
Witold Gombrowicz
#56. Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.
Connie Brockway
#57. That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
Natalie Goldberg
#58. When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
Italo Calvino
#59. I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.
Odeya Rush
#60. The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
Maggie Q
#61. It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
Carmen Kass
#62. You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.
Franz Kafka
#63. Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
Fulton J. Sheen
#64. I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.
Bethany Cosentino
#65. 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
#66. I don't like this idea
It is too much focus
on something I am trying to forget
I am afraid
that this attention to detail
will only fuel my anxiety
Samantha Schutz
#67. One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying
P. J. O'Rourke
#68. Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#70. They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
Jane Austen
#71. I've always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God's way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.
Jonathan Hull
#72. [Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people' ... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons ... We ... are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.
William Kristol
#73. I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s ... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.
Grace Jones
#74. The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#75. I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
Eminem
#76. My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don't want to attract too much cop attention.
Natasha Lyonne
#77. 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
#78. I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.
Esther Dyson
#79. We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.
Kevin Costner
#80. One question haunts and hurts
Too much, too much to mention:
Was I really seeking good
Or just seeking attention?
Is that all good deeds are
When looked at with an ice-cold eye?
Idina Menzel
#81. Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?
Tina Fey
#82. But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?
Rachel Cohn
#83. Like attention, praise and porn, salt is one of those instant gratifiers that are easy to get too much of and hard to get by without.
Josh Ozersky
#84. In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
Mark Cuban
#85. People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.
Phil Elvrum
#86. Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#87. For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.
Queen Latifah
#88. Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
Talib Kweli
#89. My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
Adam Sandler
#90. The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#91. 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
#92. It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much ...
Glen Duncan
#93. ... Of his sins [Heavenly Father] does not want [man] to think [on them] too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better [Heavenly Father] is pleased.
C.S. Lewis
#94. All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).
Johnny Vander Meer
#95. Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
George Combe
#96. I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
Lucy Punch
#97. I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.
Mary Oliver
#98. It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Mrs. Kooshof's intolerance for complexity, for the looping circuitry of a well-told tale, symptomizes an epidemic disease of our modern world. (I see it daily among my students. The short attention span, the appetite limited to linearity. Too much Melrose Place.)
Tim O'Brien
#100. We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.
Frederick Lenz
