"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

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"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

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

Judith Martin, American Author

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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."

John Zorn, American Composer

Attention, Friends, Old, Support

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

Philip Pullman, British Writer

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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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

Diane Sawyer, American Journalist

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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!"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Attention, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"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."

Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary

Attention, Force, Liberty, Nothing

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

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

Attention,

"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards."

Annie Proulx, American Journalist

Attention, Awards, Merit, Spirit

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist

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