35 Quotes About Attention Seekers

A little bit of power can make a big difference in the long run. These quotes about attention seekers serve as the perfect example to the type of common behavior experienced.

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.”

“A quiet personality sure isn’t what you need to attract attention.”

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

“Boys seek attention, men demand respect.”

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”

“Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.”

“History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.”

“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

“I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.”

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

“In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting…if ever it was.”

“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.”

“Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.”

“Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They’re emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention.”

“People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.”

“People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn’t there gives people the impression that they have haters. It’s all for attention so it looks like they are important.”

“Seek respect not attention.”

“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”

“The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.”

“The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.”

“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.”

“The hunger for attention is an enemy of self-love.”

“The only thing worse than an attention seeker, two attention seekers.”

“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

“The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.”

“Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.”

“We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it’s the Tuesday that’s tough that really counts. Sometimes she just needs some flowers or even just that ear. It’s the little things that count. It’s the regular days of the year that you have to keep your attention on her.”

“We only shout when we neglect what silence can do.”

“When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.”

“While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.”

From neural processes to complex cognitive tasks, finding a way to get the attention you seek can be very rewarding.