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Keith Henson

"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins."

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"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins."

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Amber Hurdle

"It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway."

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"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."

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"I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention."

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"As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more."

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

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Amber Hurdle

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

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"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
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"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."
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"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
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"I much prefer the modern world."
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