#attention

The constant attention is what is so difficult. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#constant #difficult

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. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#attention #criticism #down #feel #haven

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. ↗

— John Badham

#about #attention #attention span #great #just

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#attention #company #ever #his #never

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#brought #doing #exposure #got #inch

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#anybody #attention #elections #hardly #local

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#bands #emphasis #english #fashion #good

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#bear #being #business #called #gregarious

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#area #attention #better #concerns #ecology