However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.
(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation i...
Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
I guess I like things that take time and attention. More worthwhile that way.
You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.
In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.
