#attention

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#attention #better #call #chew #gone

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#benefit #characters #draw #function #functioning

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#attention #between #classes #ear #easy

It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#attention #get #much #right #seem

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believes #best #counterproductive #demands #economics

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#attention #call #cannons #does #fire

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. ↗

— John Moody

#annual #attention #begin #circulating #concentrated

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#eating #lonely #man #much #requires

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ↗

— Robert Musil

#attention #days #developed #disturbed #emotionally

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#cares #cartoon #day #doing #environment