Attention Quotes - Page 26

• One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Wish

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.385

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• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Faith, Book

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• Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.

  Edward Kennedy

  Phones, People, Advice

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• A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching and so forth. The more dramatic organization does catch attention quicker. Over the long haul, however, it's a lot more difficult to keep together because you're not building solid...A lasting organization is one in which people will continue to build, develop and move when you are not there.

  Cesar Chavez

  Moving, Organization, Long

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• You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

  Paul Newman

  Real, Blessing, Appreciate

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• We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

  Mark Twain

  Pay, Flattery, Despise

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3362, Delphi Classics

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• He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

  Robert Redford

  Sarcastic, Personality, Lightning

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• The true art of memory is the art of attention.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Memories, Awareness

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.175

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• The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories; one spent with interesting people has merely a sort of bouquet.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Memories, People, Interesting

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• In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

  Max Lerner

  Money, Hero, Men

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• The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Men, Dying

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

  Adolf Hitler

  Power, People, Leader

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Heaven, Wicked, Hell

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

  Mandell Creighton

  Ideas, Paradox

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• I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Success, Achievement, Knows

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.10

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• Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

  Michael Pollan

  Fun, Pay, Mechanic

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• I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

  Bruce Willis

  Dad, Father, Thinking

  "Bruce Willis On Aging And Fatherhood The Second Time Around". Zoomer interview, www.everythingzoomer.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

  Bruce Willis

  Daughter, Dad, Kids

  "Bruce Willis On Aging And Fatherhood The Second Time Around". Interview with Richard Aldhous, www.everythingzoomer.com. June 24, 2013.

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• When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

  Catherine Ponder

  Blessing, People, Soul

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• To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Love, Change, Giving Up

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• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

  Simone Weil

  Sympathy, Thinking, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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• We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No more night life, no more warm weather and no more a lot of media attention. . . . I guess this was his first shot at getting something big. I guess he had to take it.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Night, Media

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• I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Nba, Long

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

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• Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Inspirational, Empowering, Trying

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• The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Attention And Love, Self

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