“To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can use to attract attention, attract voters. And get influence in our society.” PeopleUsePoliticalPowerfulAttentionInfluenceFiguresTvsOur SocietyDevicesVotersUsualVery PowerfulFiltersBypass Author:Alexander Stille
“I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.” PeopleThinkingAttentionFiguresFameHardestMeritGirlfriendSpotlightHardest Times Author:Rosamund Pike
“If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, never mind where it is; just keep quiet and hope it will go away - for that's your best chance; you have none in a stand-up fight with a good thorough-going African insect.” IfsMindLooksFightingChancePayAttentionFiguresQuietCrossesFlyingGoing AwayInsectsThoroughGemsLobster Book:West African Studies Source: West African Studies
“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.” KnowsYearsArtistAttentionMoralFiguresMovementYouthRevolutionIntegrityFameDeserveConcernedDiedRussiaRevolutionaryOur TimePurityPassagesAgonySpainExileObscurityParticipantsMarxistSplinters Author:I. F. Stone
“there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.” PeoplePayAttentionStreetsFiguresWallFinancialTendencies Author:Benjamin Graham
“And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.” WellsFactsShowsAttentionFiguresSkatingShowing OffFigure SkatingCenter Of Attention Author:Scott Hamilton
“Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).” IfsNeedsGivingYearsLittlesEndsForceSpaceLevelsEffortAttentionAirFiguresNeededEnginesRelianceRocketsUnwillingDeadlineAir Force Author:John McCain
“The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.” PeopleMeanPersonsDoeGamesWishAttentionFiguresFieldsTypeAccomplishedDedicatedArrogantMisunderstoodTeammateCockyArrogant People Author:Rickey Henderson
“I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsAttentionToo MuchFiguresScientistMentoring Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
“The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.” HumansArtTwoFacesAttentionBrainFocusFiguresBabyRelationArchitectureLandscapeOur RelationshipDotsHuman Faces Author:Dave McKean
“For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.” ReasonStoriesSeemsRunningKidsSchoolPayAttentionFiguresHorrorHigh SchoolScreensPay AttentionScreamUp And DownIsleMayhemDate Movie Author:Rob Zombie
“Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From around 2 or 3, the pretty ones already know how and why they get attention. And how quickly they learn to play it. Use it. And how quickly the rest of us figure out we don't have it.” KnowsLittlesLongImportantPlayUseCultureGirlAttentionKnow HowFiguresBirthDeterminedSensibilityDesirability Author:Cris Mazza
“The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.” GivingBodyYoungAttentionStupidFiguresTenConsequenceNotionTeenagerMotiveYoung WomenNever ChangeParkingWomen's BodiesParking Lot Author:Richard Brookhiser
“Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.” SelfTurnsPayAttentionEnvironmentSelf EsteemFiguresSafeAskingAssumingInstinctEsteemPay AttentionNervesNow And ThenWrong TurnSafe Environment Author:Marilyn vos Savant