Attention Quotes - Page 26

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.

Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have not bestowed more minute attention on a subject which doubtless furnishes the true key to the problems of economics.

We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.

A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.