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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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"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way." »Keanu Reeves
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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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"The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity." »Thomas Peters
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"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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"The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frightened,' and then you experience fear, most likely you'll succumb to it, because you're paying attention to it. The correct thing to tell yourself is, 'If I do get frightened, I will stay in command.'" »Herbert Fenstermeim
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"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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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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"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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"paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse." »Groucho Marx
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"People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off." »Jewish Proverb
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"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute." »J. W. Fulbright
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"Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it." »Peggy Joyce
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"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes." »J.B. Priestley
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"To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to." »Franklin P. Jones
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"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." »Henry Ford
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"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." »Henry Ford
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"Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does." »James Hilton
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"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money." »Arthur Godfrey
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"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." »Ellen Goodman
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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return." »Gore Vidal
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"Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry." »Mark Twain
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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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