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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."


"I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right."


"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."


"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."


"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."


"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."


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


"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."



"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."


"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."


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


"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."


"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."


"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."


"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."


"Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention."


"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."


"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."


"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."


"I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it."


"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."


"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."


"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."


"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."


"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."


"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."


"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."


"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."


"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."


"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."


"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."


"You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town."
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