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"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." »Herbert Simon, economist
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"To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention." »Kelvin Throop
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"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds." »Tryon Edwards
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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory." »Richard Whately
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""Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex." »Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
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"Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense." »George Gallup
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder." »Paul Valery
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"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind." »William Shakespeare
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"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy." »Hesiod
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"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control." »Cyril Connolly
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"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company." »Jeremy Collier
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"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." »Arthur Koestler
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"There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." »Richard Feynman
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"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect." »Sam Ewig
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do." »C. C. Colton
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." »Confucius
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"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." »James R. Cook
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"Genius is nothing but continued attention." »Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." »Jim Rohn
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"Friendship demands attention." »Sir Thomas More
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"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way." »Keanu Reeves
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"I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised." »Raymond Justice
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"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." »Richard Moss, M.D.
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." »Plato
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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism." »North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
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""Something will catch your attention and give you a reason to smile."" »Kevin Chong
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