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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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"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
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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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"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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"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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"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."
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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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"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."
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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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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
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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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"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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"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
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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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"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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"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 was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it."
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"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."
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"I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting."
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"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."
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"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it."
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"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
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"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
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"I never really paid attention to sales until the second record."
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"But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention."
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"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."
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"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."
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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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