#attention

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#attention #both #career #choices #go

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#dealing #dreadful #eyes #few #few things

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear. ↗

— Christian Bale

#background #damn #disappear #fade #feel

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#game #go #go home #home #i

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

I don't like being the center of attention. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#being #center #i #like

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. ↗

— Adam Ant

#deal #dealt #faced #final #great

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#attention #control #control freak #details #freak

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#attention #attorney #because #board #city

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#attention span #bored #fast #get #i