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David Ogilvy

"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."

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"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."

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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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"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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"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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"We've all been in the middle of a conversation and the person with whom we are speaking breaks eye contact, appears distracted, glazes over, or looks elsewhere. Their simple eye movement can quickly break down communications by making us feel ignored, dismissed, or rejected. For some, it may be accidental and unintentional, while for others, avoiding eye contact is on purpose."

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Donna Grant

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

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"Everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while."

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"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."

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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?"

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"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know."

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"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."

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