Quotes with attention-grabber

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  • E. M. Cioran The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bob Graham The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The relationship of the toastmaster to the 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.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas J. Peters The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Carl Honore The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Allen Klein 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.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Peter F. Drucker The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson The true art of memory is the art of attention.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Griffith Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • James Baldwin There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Butch Trucks There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Samuel Beckett There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bob Moses There is a weariness... from constant attention to the things you are doing, the struggle of good against evil.
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  • S. Maxwell Coder There is no doubt that God has often brought a certain verse to the attention of one of His children in an unusual and almost miraculous manner, for a special need, but the Word was never intended to be consulted in a superstitious manner.
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  • Aldous Huxley There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Hayes There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
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