I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

I try not to pay attention to all the hype.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from...

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I focus on myself; how can I be a better teammate? A better person? I just let the rest pan out. I can't really pay a lot of attention to the accolades, but at the same time, I don't take for granted...

I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have...

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.

The more you remain aware with all the internal and external changes of life, more you allow yourself to move deeper towards the source.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and...

The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing...

It was beyond his understanding that a being, regardless of the relationship he might have with another, just like that, with his hand on his waist he would reject attention in such a brutal way.