Pay Attention Quotes

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

I'm tryna put out the right stuff and just do me and not pay attention to who's hating and who's loving me and make the music I love to make, and make it the best I can.

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless. We have to prevent these crimes and these awful, awful killings. I just hope people pay attention to it.

This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections.

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

Pay attention to the sound of words.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.

We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.

I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.

People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

Politics, in my judgment, has become not just the means to a policy ends, but it's become the end itself. Politics has become the sport that we all watch, and we all pay attention to.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.