#attention

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#demanded #i #story #viewer #wanted

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#audience #keep #place #really #same

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting. ↗

— Anna Kournikova

#earned #getting #hard #i #very

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#acting #actually #always #attention #big

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. ↗

— Alan Watts

#conscious #ego #focus #nothing #other

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. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#being #best #bit #could #especially

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#attention #comes #draw #exactly #hand

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat? ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#attention #bank #crisis #economic #economic crisis

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#america #attention #attention span #average #length

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

#change #consumes #content #copyright #dramatically