#attention

It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly. ↗

— Julie Brown

#attention #been #deal #i #impossible

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#attention #fail #keep #life #listeners

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#agricultural #apart #attention #civilization #condition

I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#attention #clown #four #i #jokes

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#attention #grow #i #just #less

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#attention span #culture #destroying #mission #press

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#artist #attention #confine #finds #greater

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#although #attention #brain #calculations #conscious

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#art #attention #commanding #conversation #easily

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#attention #awareness #beauty #compassion #creativity