Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic. - Jean Sibelius
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. - Tom Shales
You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. - John Elway
You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh. - Dane Cook
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible. - Claudio Reyna
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. - Mark Shields
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. - Van Morrison
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. - Octavia Butler
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man. - Brendan Fraser
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. - Annie Proulx
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. - Anthony J. D'Angelo
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it. - Lawrence Hargrave
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company. - Mark Millar
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
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. - Peter Fonda
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. - Ben Okri
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention. - Hakeem Olajuwon
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing. - Joshua Lederberg
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. - Martin Chemnitz
If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily. - Daniel Goleman
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources. - Jan Egeland
What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus. - Luc Montagnier
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do. - Lamar Alexander