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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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""Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex." »Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory." »Richard Whately
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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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"As they use to say, spick and span new." »Miguel de Cervantes
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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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"The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span." »Francis Bacon
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"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly." »Cicero
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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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"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything." »Laurence Sterne
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"The good extend their loving care To men, however mean or vile; E?en base Ch?nd?las?* dwellings share Th? impartial sunbeam?s silver smile." »The Hitopadesa
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"When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then." »Blaise Pascal
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"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
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"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia." »William James
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"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
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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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"Friendship demands attention." »Sir Thomas More
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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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"I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised." »Raymond Justice
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"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way." »Keanu Reeves
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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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"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." »Richard Moss, M.D.
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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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"attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." »Plato
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""Something will catch your attention and give you a reason to smile."" »Kevin Chong
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"The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence." »Sue Atchley Ebaugh
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"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." »Kevin Kelly
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