Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
~By Lou Brock ~
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
~By Terry McMillan ~
But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.
~By Dave Eggers ~
I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
~By Bruce Johnston ~
There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
~By Jason Mewes ~
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
~By Simone Weil ~
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
~By Vince McMahon ~
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
~By Greg Anderson ~
You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
~By Dan Hawkins ~
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
~By Lactantius ~
But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
~By Matt Drudge ~
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
~By Bob Balaban ~
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
~By Keith Henson ~
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
~By Rudolph A. Marcus ~
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
~By James Taylor ~
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
~By Terence ~
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
~By Tom Cruise ~
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
~By Annie Proulx ~
I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.
~By DeForest Soaries ~
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.
~By Lawrence Hargrave ~
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
The constant attention is what is so difficult.
~By Natalie Wood ~
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
~By Keith Henson ~
The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
~By Barbara Olson ~
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
~By Warren Zevon ~
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
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.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
~By Robert Fripp ~
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
~By David Lee Roth ~
A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.
~By Bill Budge ~
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.
~By John Spratt ~
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
~By Arthur Miller ~
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
~By George Combe ~
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
~By Richard Francis Burton ~
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
~By Red Auerbach ~
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
~By Eva Gabor ~
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
~By Bridget Riley ~
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
~By Janet Frame ~
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.
~By Jim Lampley ~
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.
~By Chris Hemsworth ~
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
~By Rob Lowe ~
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
~By Richard Cecil ~
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
~By Peter Fonda ~
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
~By Jane Austen ~
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.
~By Esther Dyson ~
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
~By John Rowland ~
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
~By Jim Rohn ~
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
~By Paul Nurse ~
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
~By Herman Kahn ~
I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.
~By Debbie Gibson ~
I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.
~By Chris Noth ~
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
~By Gong Li ~
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
~By Dean Acheson ~
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
~By Richard J. Daley ~
What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.
~By David Zucker ~
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
~By Van Morrison ~
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
~By Leo Kottke ~
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
~By Joan Jett ~
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.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
~By Dave Eggers ~
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
~By Gerry Cooney ~
We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.
~By John Pistole ~
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
~By Robert Reich ~
The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.
~By Phil Crosby ~
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
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