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Attention Quotes
"I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important."
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"I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want."
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"The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy."
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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."
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"The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness."
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"I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention."
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"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."
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"I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic."
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"I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language."
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"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."
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"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
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"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."
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"Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?"
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"I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate."
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"The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done."
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"A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson."
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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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"You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town."
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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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"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources."
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"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."
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"My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task."
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"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."
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"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
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"What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have."
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"Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers."
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"Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls."
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"The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
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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 one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
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"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."
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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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"Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you."
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