Attention Quotes - Page 5

• If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

  Janet Fitch

  Lonely, Space, Want

  "White Oleander". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

  Robert Redford

  Acting, Pay Attention

  "Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars : A Quiz Book" by Andrew J. Rausch, (p. 216), 2003.

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• Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

  Og Mandino

  Effort, Pay, Pay Attention

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

  Joe Morton

  Jobs, Actors, Pay

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• Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  Believe, Past, Space

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• If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

  Annie Proulx

  Smart, Independent, Years

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• I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

  Arthur Miller

  Dog, Fall, Character

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

  Louis C. K.

  Pay, Dark Forces, Entertainers

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

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  As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Artist, Simplicity

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• In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

  William Billings

  Keys, Firsts, Pay

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• Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

  Larry Norman

  Believe, People, Pay

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• You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

  Dane Cook

  Laughing, Crowds, Pay

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• The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

  Tina Yothers

  Music, People, Curiosity

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• With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

  Bradley Whitford

  Believe, Opportunity, Shows

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• The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

  Zebulon Pike

  Errors, Preparation, Done

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

  Randy Harrison

  Want, Down And, Posture

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• I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Squash, Littles

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• You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

  Judith Martin

  Real, Giving, Letters

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• These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

  Lewis Tappan

  Character, Interesting, Excited

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• People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

  Sydney Schanberg

  New York, Issues, People

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• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Causes, Size

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• I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

  Abraham Clark

  Aggravation, Purpose, Pay

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• Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

  A. R. Ammons

  Results, Greater, Values

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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