#attention

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention. ↗

— Laura Linney

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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #common #common interests #compete #define

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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Whatever is popular deserves attention. ↗

— James Mackintosh

#deserves #popular #whatever

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#body #daydream #else #everybody #everybody else

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#being #center #film #i #i love

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody. ↗

— Kim Mathers

#had #i #just #love #low

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land. ↗

— Reba McEntire

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