#attention

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. ↗

— John Green

#bored #broadly #friends #get #lot

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#awful #celebration #choose #could #desperate

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#attention #back #done #family #given

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention. ↗

— Brandon Routh

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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen. ↗

— Warren Rudman

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Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#between #dealing #doing #eyes #four

Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great. ↗

— Gary Locke

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

— Jeremy London

#begging #brother #growing #growing up #i

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#coping #honest #i #very #well

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

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