#attention

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #against #attention #basic #discrimination

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#attention #big #disingenuous #flattering #goal

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#because #celebrities #draw #get #i

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#build #capacity #hover #internal #needed

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#attention #i #inspires #just #like

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#attention #away #been #i #liked

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention. ↗

— Bob Graham

#attention #clearly #great #president #result

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares. ↗

— Benny Green

#asked #attention #because #been #cares

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. ↗

— John Green

#attention #attention spans #become #bells #bells and whistles

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#attention #fast #god-given #god-given talent #hard