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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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"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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"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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"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." »Jim Rohn
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"Genius is nothing but continued attention." »Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Friendship demands attention." »Sir Thomas More
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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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"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." »Richard Moss, M.D.
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""Something will catch your attention and give you a reason to smile."" »Kevin Chong
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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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"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 we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence." »Sue Atchley Ebaugh
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"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" »Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
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"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." »Kevin Kelly
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius
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"All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention." »Simone Weil
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"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." »William Bridges
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"You can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention." »Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon
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"Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could -- I'm searching for the right word -- could, could die." »Steve Jobs
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"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." »Isaac Newton
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