Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
Philip Pullman

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
Al Yankovic

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Dennis Rodman

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
Martin Van Buren

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Simone Weil

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
John Polkinghorne

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison

The constant attention is what is so difficult.
Natalie Wood

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
Sandra Day O'Connor

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
Tom Hanks