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Lascelles Abercrombie

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

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

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"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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"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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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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"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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"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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"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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"The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments."

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"Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job."

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"If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting."

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"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."
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"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."
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"The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read."
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"The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time."
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"It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual."
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