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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."
"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."
"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."
"One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options."
"Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
"Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work."
"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."
"It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world."
"A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission."
"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason."
"Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn."
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