"That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write."

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"That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write."

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"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Attention, Truth, Wisdom, Regret, Power

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"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."

Jeff Gannon, American Journalist

Attention, Help

"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."

Boris Yeltsin, Russian Statesman

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"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."

Donald Judd, American Artist

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"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Attention, Being, Feeling, Giving

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

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"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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

Dennis Rodman, American Athlete

Attention, Hair

"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it."

Lawrence Hargrave, Australian Scientist

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"Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down."

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