"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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"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Attention, Truth, Wisdom, Regret, Power

"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."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Attention, Dress, Right

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

Jeff Gannon, American Journalist

Attention, Help

"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."

Boris Yeltsin, Russian Statesman

Attention, Information, Potential

"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."

Donald Judd, American Artist

Attention, Building

"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Attention, Being, Feeling, Giving

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

Attention, Being

"Whatever is popular deserves attention."

James Mackintosh, Scottish Judge

Attention, Popular

"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Attention, Culture, Mission, Press

"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."

Dennis Rodman, American Athlete

Attention, Hair

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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."

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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."

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"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."

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"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."

Paradise

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

Knowledge

"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."

Friendship

"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

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