Attention Quotes - Page 6

• Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

  Robert Teeter

  Government, Years, Giving

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• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  Anna Seward

  Acquisition, Language, Study

  Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

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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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• 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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• 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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• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Hemisphere

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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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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• In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

  Victor Garber

  Thinking, Intelligent, Demand

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

  James Stockdale

  Mean, Should Have, Boss

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• The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.

  Frank X. Barron

  Science, Creative, Pay

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• I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am not like politicians who sleep on national issues though they may be awake physically.

  H. D. Deve Gowda

  Powerful, Sleep, Issues

  "Gowda Upset Over Seeing His Sleeping Photo". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. July 27, 2003.

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• The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

  John McCain

  Pay, Problem, Congress

  "A Crumbling America" by Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2010.

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• I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

  Tom Brokaw

  Military, Thinking, Issues

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• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  William James

  Family, Power, Men

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.

  Marlo Morgan

  Inspirational, Pain, Focus

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• Whatever is popular deserves attention.

  James Mackintosh

  Song, Popularity, Deserve

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• Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

  Terry McMillan

  Pay, About Yourself, Agitate

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• I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

  Jason Mewes

  Pay, Pay Attention, Filmmaker

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Home

  "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  Victoria Beckham

  Hands, Details, Pay

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• ...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.

  Marlo Morgan

  Wind, Wings, Endurance

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• Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

  Jeremy London

  Brother, Growing Up, Begging

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• I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

  Dustin Diamond

  Writing, Bass, Pay

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• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  Cameron Diaz

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Nice, Writing, Want

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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