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Attention Quotes
"I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world."
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"I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right."
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"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
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"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."
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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
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"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself."
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"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."
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"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
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"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."
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"Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention."
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"I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares."
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"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."
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"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
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"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
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"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."
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"I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it."
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"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."
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"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
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"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
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"In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't."
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"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
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"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."
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"You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town."
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"When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention."
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
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"The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail."
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"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."
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"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
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"The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer."
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"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."
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"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention."
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"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
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