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"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."
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Personal Development
"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
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Personal Development
"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."
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Personal Development
"I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention."
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Personal Development
"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet."
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Personal Development
"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."
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"I much prefer the modern world."
World
"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."
Dying
"Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards."
Family
"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
Family
"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
Psychology
"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older."
Intelligence
"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
Growth
"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
Environment
"Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives."
Woman
"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."
Environment
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