The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
~By John McCain ~
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
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.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
~By Robert Fripp ~
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
~By Jason Mewes ~
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
~By Helen Rowland ~
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
~By Mark Poster ~
I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
~By Deana Carter ~
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
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.
~By Brit Hume ~
I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.
~By Lusia Strus ~
I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
~By Raymond Floyd ~
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
~By Simone Weil ~
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
~By Gong Li ~
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
~By Rowan Williams ~
What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
~By Luc Montagnier ~
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
~By Joichi Ito ~
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.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
~By Pepper Schwartz ~
What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
~By David Bohm ~
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
~By David O. Selznick ~
I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits.
~By Henry Cole ~
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.
~By Jello Biafra ~
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
~By Octavia Butler ~
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
~By Chevy Chase ~
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
~By Dana Plato ~
One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster.
~By Rene Veaux ~
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
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.
~By Luther Burbank ~
You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.
~By Jim Balsillie ~
Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.
~By Richard Widmark ~
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
~By Rudolph A. Marcus ~
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
The constant attention is what is so difficult.
~By Natalie Wood ~
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
~By Adam Sandler ~
In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
~By Bob Graham ~
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
~By Kate Moss ~
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
~By Mariah Carey ~
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
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.
~By James Ellroy ~
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.
~By George Combe ~
After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
~By Greg Anderson ~
Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
~By Buck Owens ~
Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.
~By Michael Landon ~
I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.
~By Maurice Strong ~
The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
~By David Frum ~
Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.
~By Michael P. Anderson ~
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
~By Julie Christie ~
At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.
~By Michael Strahan ~
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.
~By John W. Thompson ~
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
~By James Laughlin ~
So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
~By Mike Johanns ~
Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
~By Matt Groening ~
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
~By Konstantin Stanislavisky ~
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
~By Marc Anthony ~
Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.
~By Connie Chung ~
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
~By Simon Cowell ~
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
~By Shannon Lucid ~
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
~By Tom Cruise ~
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
~By Wally Lamb ~
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
~By Harrison Ford ~
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.
~By Bob Weir ~
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
~By Anita Brookner ~
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.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
~By Brandon Routh ~
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
~By Plato ~
Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
~By Holly Valance ~
We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
~By John Hawley ~
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
~By Little Richard ~
Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?
~By Storm Jameson ~
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
~By Red Auerbach ~
I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
~By Vince McMahon ~
You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
~By Dan Hawkins ~
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