"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."

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"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, American Judge

Attention, First, Media, Press

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Richard Whately, English Writer

Attention, Curiosity, Memory

"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."

Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer

Attention, Destruction, Earth, Global warming

"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

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"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."

Cole Younger, American Criminal

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"I think the killers get far too much attention."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine."

David Kay, American Scientist

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"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, English Musician

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"During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky."

Paul Nurse, British Scientist

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Explore more quotes by Bobby McFerrin

"I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece."

Jazz

"It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible."

Love

"When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out."

Music

"I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar."

Music

"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."

Poetry

"Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that."

College

"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."

Parents

"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."

Home

"Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time."

Time

"If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful."

Boss