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Attention Quotes
"A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson."
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"That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction."
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"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
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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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"The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium."
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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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"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention."
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"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes."
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"I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention."
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"I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored."
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"Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that."
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"The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
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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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"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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"Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you."
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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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"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
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"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."
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"The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it."
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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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"Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty."
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"Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important."
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"I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous."
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"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
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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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"The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first."
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"I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention."
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"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
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"I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses."
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"If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention."
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"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."
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"I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it."
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"I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal."
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"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet."
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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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"A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention."
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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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