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 ~
Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
~By Willie Sutton ~
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
~By Judy Holliday ~
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
~By Matthew Perry ~
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
~By David Ogilvy ~
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 ~
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
~By James McAvoy ~
All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.
~By Michael Strahan ~
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
~By Richard Owen ~
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
~By Octavia Butler ~
It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
~By Quincy Jones ~
At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.
~By Chris Noth ~
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
~By Margery Allingham ~
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
~By William Throsby Bridges ~
I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
~By Harrison Ford ~
We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
~By Mike Johanns ~
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
~By Dave Eggers ~
I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.
~By Jason Mewes ~
Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
~By Judy Collins ~
One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.
~By Ron Kind ~
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.
~By John W. Thompson ~
But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.
~By Little Richard ~
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 ~
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
~By Meriwether Lewis ~
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
~By Jeff Miller ~
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
~By Robert Hall ~
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 ~
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
~By Simone Weil ~
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
~By Tom Peters ~
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.
~By Robert Musil ~
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
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 ~
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
~By George Gallup ~
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
~By Red Auerbach ~
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.
~By Ridley Scott ~
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
~By Fay Vincent ~
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.
~By Frederick Reines ~
At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.
~By Ashley Scott ~
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
~By Brian Eno ~
You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.
~By Charlie Norwood ~
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 ~
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
~By Edie Falco ~
When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
~By Benmont Tench ~
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
~By Christopher Morley ~
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
~By William Bennett ~
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 ~
You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.
~By Judith Martin ~
Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
~By Julie Christie ~
That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
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 ~
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
~By Judy Garland ~
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
~By Jean Rostand ~
With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.
~By Lawrence Korb ~
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
~By Chevy Chase ~
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
~By Adam Ferguson ~
I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
~By Charlize Theron ~
It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.
~By Steffi Graf ~
There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.
~By George Stephanopoulos ~
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.
~By Alexander Kluge ~
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
~By Robert Hall ~
I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
~By Danica Patrick ~
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
~By Anne Lamott ~
I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
~By Charles M. Schwab ~
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.
~By George Richards Minot ~
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
~By George Vancouver ~
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 ~
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
~By Charles Edison ~
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
~By Marc Anthony ~
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
~By Larry Dixon ~
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 ~
I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
~By Tia Carrere ~
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
~By Anita Brookner ~
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
~By Terence ~
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.
~By Steve Forbert ~
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
~By Tom Shales ~
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
~By Robert Crippen ~
I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.
~By James Ellroy ~
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
~By Keith Henson ~
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