Quotes with attention-grabber

Quotes 201 till 220 of 230.

  • B. B. King When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Edward F. Benson When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
    Edward F. Benson
    English writer and archaeologist (1867 - 1940)
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  • Italo Calvino When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Brene Brown When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • George Washington Carver When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Barbara de Angelis When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Michael LeBoeuf When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
    Michael LeBoeuf
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Tim O'Brien When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 183
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bennie Thompson While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin 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.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Ben Horowitz With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Billie Jean King Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Anita Brookner Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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