Quotes with attention-grabber

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  • Bob Weir They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.
    Bob Weir
    American musician and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Ashvaghosha Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
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  • Eknath Easwaran Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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  • Stephen Hawking To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
    The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss (2007 , Hawking's voorwoord
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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  • Plato Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Alice Walker Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bo Bennett 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?
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Carl Paladino We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Alain de Botton We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Chimamanda Adichie We raise girls to see each other as competitors—not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing—but for the attention of men.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Alexander Volkov We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
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  • Andrew Wiles We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bud Grant Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • James Mackintosh Whatever is popular deserves attention.
    James Mackintosh
    British politician (1765 - 1832)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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