Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
~By Keith Henson ~
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 ~
I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!
~By Chris Brown ~
I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.
~By David Kay ~
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.
~By Ashley Scott ~
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
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 ~
Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.
~By Frederick Reines ~
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
~By Neil Young ~
That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
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 ~
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 was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
~By Dean Acheson ~
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
~By Simone Weil ~
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.
~By Jean Sibelius ~
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.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
~By Ted Allen ~
I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
~By Joan Jett ~
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
~By Meriwether Lewis ~
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
~By Diane Lane ~
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 ~
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.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
~By Robert Reich ~
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
~By James Loeb ~
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
~By Jane Fonda ~
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
~By Iris DeMent ~
Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
~By Natasha Hamilton ~
There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.
~By George Stephanopoulos ~
It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.
~By Jennifer Wyatt ~
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
~By Brian Eno ~
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
~By John Hench ~
My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
~By James Bovard ~
I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
~By Otis Rush ~
My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
~By Philip Pullman ~
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 bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
~By William Bartram ~
The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.
~By Stuart Davis ~
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
~By Richard Armour ~
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
~By Octavia Butler ~
Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.
~By Brandy Norwood ~
The constant attention is what is so difficult.
~By Natalie Wood ~
Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
~By Pat Brown ~
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
~By Verne Troyer ~
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
~By Maria Monk ~
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
~By Lou Brock ~
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
~By Nanci Griffith ~
I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.
~By Daniel Johns ~
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
~By Plato ~
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 ~
I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.
~By Susan Boyle ~
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
~By Alain de Botton ~
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.
~By Jim Lampley ~
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 ~
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
~By Matt Groening ~
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
~By Lou Holtz ~
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
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 ~
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
~By Jonathan Frid ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Barbara Deming ~
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 ~
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
~By Richard John Neuhaus ~
It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
~By Warren Zevon ~
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
~By Robert G. Allen ~
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.
~By Ron Silver ~
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
~By William Bennett ~
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
~By Jim Evans ~
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
~By Francis Wright ~
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