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“The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.”

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Author:Johnny Manziel

“Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.”

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Author:Sophie Thompson

“A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!”

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Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.”

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Book:Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

Source: Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

“We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke up. That's an interesting phenomenon. It was even interesting back in the day. I mean, [we were] this glorified garage band. It was a great band, but it was not the kind of band you expected to become what it has.”

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Author:Slash

“A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.”

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Book:The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

“That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff