| "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 |
| "Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory." »Richard Whately |
| "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 |
| "As they use to say, spick and span new." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span." »Francis Bacon |
| "Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly." »Cicero |
| "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 |
| "A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything." »Laurence Sterne |
| "School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." »Jim Rohn |
| "Genius is nothing but continued attention." »Claude Adrien Helvetius |
| "Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." »James R. Cook |
| "Friendship demands attention." »Sir Thomas More |
| "When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." »Richard Moss, M.D. |
| "The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way." »Keanu Reeves |
| "attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." »Plato |
| "The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." »Kevin Kelly |
| "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." »Isaac Newton |
| "Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." »William Bridges |
| "No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished" »Lee Iacocca |
| "The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence." »Sue Atchley Ebaugh |
| "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." »Stephen Hawking |
| "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." »Robert J. Shiller |
| "Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius |
| "When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities." »Joseph Addison |
| "Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention." »Dumb & Dumber |
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