I was happy to trade my youth, my body for the opportunity to feel seen and to feel special.
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Quotes tagged ‘Attention’
First and foremost, try to spend more time with her. Remember that attention is very valuable for women.
Make him work for your attention because you deserve someone who's willing to put in some effort. And if that effort doesn't start in the beginning, then (newsflash!) it never will.
My disorder isn’t a means to an end, a method of manipulation, or a way to demand the attention of those around me. My disorder is just that: an illness of the brain, a chemical imbalance totally out of my control. Just like someone with a chronic physical illness, I won’t be 'cured.'
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define it for you.
Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious than the bland and timid masses.
I guess I was invisible for so long that it felt good to be noticed.
He's been acting out ever since the breakup. If he's been pulling crazy stunts, desperately trying to show off, or has been trying to bed every single person in his path, he's trying to cover up that he's devastated. It's his way of begging for attention.
Charlotte [Making fun of Bob's one-night stand]: 'She's older. At least you'll have lots to talk about.' Bob: 'I can't believe you couldn't find anyone else to lavish you with attention.'
— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com
After he says or does something funny, he looks at you for a reaction. Let’s say a guy tells a joke or does something funny in a group and everyone around starts laughing. If he looks at you first to see your reaction, it’s a sign he likes you because he wants to make sure you noticed and laughed to…
Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?
— Charlie Kaufman, Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, Joel Barish, Jim Carrey, imdb.com
Eye contact is everything. From the moment you first meet someone to the moment you get into bed with them. If they can keep eye contact, they're engaged and paying attention to you. Who doesn't want that in bed?
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.
If your ex links to ‘your song’ on their public pages, or hangs out in all the places both of you used to spend time in as a twosome, chances are, they’re crying for your attention.
There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not not…
She did not want him, but she wanted him to want her.
Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?