#attention

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#difficult #hearers #keep #more #readers

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#much #opposed #pay #public #public relations

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

— Red Auerbach

#best #best way #forget #look #love

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. ↗

— David O. Russell

#attention #beautiful #beautiful thing #better #biggest

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#attention #been #just #marketing #much

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

#attract #employers #expected #men #more

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#attention #bond #grabbing #james #james bond

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#administration #agreed #analogous #attention #due

Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I'm happier. Now I can concentrate on what I'm supposed to do, that is, training and running. Despite everything that's happened, I feel like I'm still the same person. ↗

— Liu Xiang

#better #better now #bit #concentrate #despite

She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...] My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed. Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see. ↗

— Jaclyn Moriarty

#getting-into-trouble #humor #humour #hyperactivity #beauty