Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.
The state of our state needs serious attention.
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
I think the killers get far too much attention.
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.