#attention

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#although #any #anymore #attention #because

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail. ↗

— Charles Edison

#attention #else #fail #hand #his

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#bloodless #bush #coup #court #even

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ↗

— Alice Walker

#bouquets #dance #ever #everything #except

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #control #different #exactly #get

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it. ↗

— David Walliams

#bullied #got #i #kind #loved

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attention #capable #giving #need #people

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. ↗

— Simone Weil

#ecstasy #fullest #highest

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ↗

— Simone Weil

#beings #degree #due #effectively #equal

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ↗

— Richard Whately

#curiosity #memory #much #parent