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• Plus the public’s attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn’t strike while the iron is hot… well it’s not like people will forget you, but they just won’t care anymore.

  Brian Boitano

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Right, Attention

• Particularly when you’re dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it’s necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention, Dealing

• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Topics in Friendship, Health, Inspirational, Power

  Tags in Connections, Heart, Attention, Silence, Listening, Communication

• Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parenthood, Attention

• I don’t go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don’t go on Twitter. I’m not on Facebook. I’ve seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don’t have the time or the attention span for it.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Facebook, Attention

• The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

  Usher Raymond

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention, Present

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• Because you can’t argue with all the fools in the world. It’s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they’re not paying attention.

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in World, Attention

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  Gary Locke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Attention

• Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• If you don’t pay attention and if your imagination isn’t pretty much engaged, you’re going to miss things and you’re going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination, Attention

• I never set out to write songs about the world around me… it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

  Iris DeMent

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention, Result

• I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I’m skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what’s on the stove.

  Gene Simmons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Woman, Attention

• I mean, I don’t really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

  Brooke Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It’s as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

  Bridget Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Focus, Attention

• Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn’t like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn’t like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

  Peter Fonda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.

  Peter Facinelli

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Career, Attention

• We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

  David Bohm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Unity, Action, Attention, Credo, Creed

• I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

  Brandon Routh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Place, Attention