Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like politicians who sleep on national issues though they may be awake physically.
The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.
Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
Whatever is popular deserves attention.
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.
I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
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