If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear. — Chuck Berry
People will stare. Make it worth their while. — Harry Winston
If something catches your attention, it's probably going to catch the attention of others, too. — Lewis Howes
I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly. — David Walliams
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. — Gabriel Byrne
Be the one to stand out in the crowd. — Joel Osteen
People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters. — Jenna Jameson
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. — James Arthur Ray
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen. — Stella Adler
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. — Fred Allen
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention — Jim Rohn
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention. — Phil Cooke
Short Center Of Attention Quotes
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? — George Carlin
Being in the limelight has its minuses. — Jon Postel
Where attention goes, energy flows and results show. — T. Harv Eker
The first act of love is always the giving of attention. — Dallas Willard
Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. — Shirley Temple
...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. — Augusten Burroughs
Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention. — Jerry Buss
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. — Chuck Palahniuk
Center Of Attention Image Quotes
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Being The Center Of Attention Quotes
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. — Randy Harrison
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. — Scott Hamilton
I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry. — Cam Newton
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to. — Will Smith
I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention. — Christian Bale
I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention. — Mary Stuart Masterson
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french. — Philippa Gregory
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more. — Gong Li
Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different. — Paulo Coelho
I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard. — W. Kamau Bell
Finding Your Center Quotes
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. — John Piper
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life. — Jack H. Goaslind
Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win. — David Zippel
What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again.
If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works. — Chris Brogan
Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much. — Frederick Lenz
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center. — Jeff Bridges
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes. — Terry Tempest Williams
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Willa Cather
Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace. — Peace Pilgrim
Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results. — Andrew Wommack
I know more about making money than anyone else in the world. Most people’s views on money are outdated. If you want to get rich in today’s attention-based economy, then you need to learn modern methods of wealth creation. — Andrew Tate
So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all. — Steve Forbert
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
I originally started in natural bodybuilding because I was picked on a lot in high school and didn’t get much attention from girls. As I learned to love the process of lifting more and more I started becoming more interested in competing. — Layne Norton
The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. — Tobey Maguire
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat. — Lou Brock
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Women do not get enough attention in a healthcare professional's office. We have been trained as healthcare professionals to look 'lightly' at women's complaints. — Steven Gundry
The best story wins. Not the best idea, or the right idea, or the most rational idea. Just whoever tells a story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads is the one who tends to be rewarded. — Morgan Housel
Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun. — Andy Borowitz
Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes. — Paul McCabe
Centre Of Attention Quotes
I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good. — Mario Balotelli
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner. — Abdolkarim Soroush
I think that I always loved being the centre of attention! — Katherine Heigl
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let thing happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
People say I try to be the centre of attention, but I think I just try to make people laugh. — Jack P. Shepherd
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge. — Nirmala Srivastava
I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that! — Kelly Brook
Money and power follow attention. So whoever can get the most attention is the person who takes the most action and sooner or later will get the most results.
I don’t really like being in the centre of attention. I’m not used to that. All my life I have been like the invisible girl at the back that no one sees or listens to. — Greta Thunberg
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women. — Margaret Mead
I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be the centre of attention or the class joker instead of knuckling down. Far from the perfect student. — Suzanne Shaw
I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on. — Andrew Davies
Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college. — Peter Facinelli
Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.
One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face. — Ezra Taft Benson
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become. — Brennan Manning
Haters are just confused admirers. — Justin Bieber
How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living. — Sue Monk Kidd
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world. — P. J. O'Rourke
In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there. — Deepak Chopra
Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once. — P. T. Barnum
Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are against bloodshed, regardless of whether a crime was committed against a Muslim or against a Christian or a Jew. But the question is: Why among these 60 million victims are only the Jews the center of attention? — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. — David Bowie
Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations. — Mallory Ortberg
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will. — Thomas Keating
I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me. — Rachel Bilson
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. — Roddy Doyle
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Our hearts resonate with the idea of enjoying God's grace. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. And while the wonder of grace is worthy of our attention, if that grace is disconnected from its purpose, the sad result is a self-centered Christianity that bypasses the heart of God. — David Platt
Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction. — Frederick Lenz
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles. — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Its really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that its not going to be in a positive way. — Darlene Cates
The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention. — Robert Breault
It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set. — Jon Hamm
I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that? — Lady Gaga
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting. — Julie Christie
The more and more I step back and look at myself from my own personal perspective - which is what I try to do, to get outside of myself and look at it - there aren't too many things that I don't think I am. I like to party 'n' bullshit, entertain, be the center of attention, and pour champagne on naked girls. I like to do that too. — Keith Stanfield
To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases. — Dave Grohl
From a stupidly young age I was always involved in anything, whether it be a nativity play or little kids plays. Wherever it was, I was involved and I think it was because more than anything, I wanted to be the center of attention. — Ed Speleers
The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable. — Garth Greenwell
I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something. — Willis Earl Beal
I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention. — Edwin Catmull
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life. — Philip Kapleau
The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career]. — George Carlin
The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis. — John Green
Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it. — Frederick Lenz
I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention. — Ali MacGraw
We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives. — Brenda Shoshanna
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