Quotes with attention-grabber

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  • B. J. Daniels That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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  • Marcel Proust The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Adolf Hitler The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Philip Crosby The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.
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  • James Kelman The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
    James Kelman
    Scottish writer (1946 - )
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Frank Crane The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Marilyn Ferguson 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.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Alan Watts The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bobby Flay The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Barbara Deming The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bill Hybels The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Okri The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Billy Paul The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
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  • Boris Sidis The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Assata Shakur The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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