Best calling & attention Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.”

Country Problem Spirit Attention Citizens Calling Solutions Debt Campaigns Practicals Boards Cooperation Pragmatism Petitions National Debt Vermont

Author:Peter Welch

“The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.”

Inspirational Humans Values Attention Moral Roles Calling Demand Elements Approach Technique Practicals Engaged Restoration Human Values Technicians

Author:Christopher Lasch

“Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.”

Needs Should Moments Stories Action Attention Calling Grass Description Snakes Slides Slowing

Book:Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

Source: Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

“A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.”

“The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.”

Character Purpose Order Attention Effects Calling Salt Stamps Steak

Author:George O. Wood

“It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.”

Men Way Given Attention Fool Calling

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.”

Ifs Needs Feels Humans Doe Two Done Sin Simple Attention Mistake Five Calling Mathematics Guilt Errors Committed Foolish Commit Guilty Pay Attention Plus Homework Simple Things Unprepared

Author:Rajneesh

“I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.”

World Mean Art Reason Interest Attention Economy Calling No Reason Conventions Apology Transparent Art World Vested Interests

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?”

People Knows Done Enough Guy Games Attention Creative Wife Calling Drug Smart This Guy Attacking Dui

Author:Terrell Owens

“I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.”

Attention Struggle Calling Dialogue Gathering

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.”

People Kind Ideas Perfect Attention Opinion Happened Advice Media Calling Lovely All Kinds No Idea Offering Provoking

Author:Cathy Freeman

“Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.”

People Reason Problem Social Attention Needed Calling Activism Eleanor Admirer Social Activism

Author:William A. Rusher

“I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.”

Felt Attention Hair Calling Basketball Aids Ribbons Playoffs

Author:Dennis Rodman

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.”

“I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.”

Trying Voice Attention Mines Calling Understood Begging

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.”

Giving Matter Hard Done Action Evil Individual Attention Calling Credit Accomplished Praiseworthy Giving Credit

Book:The Booker T. Washington Reader

Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader

“Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.”

Men Reason Attention Objects Calling Profession Pursuit Useless Reason Why Neglect Divides Principal Multiplicity Industrious

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.”

Humans Important Matter Language Attention Meditation Calling Understood Pious Human Language

Author:Martin Chemnitz

“One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.”

Men Reason Success Attention Objects Calling Profession Pursuit Useless Reason Why Neglect Divides Principal Multitudes Why Me

Author:Nathanael Emmons

“By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”

“We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of nature to provide for the various exigencies of the sublunary creation, and to make the several parts dependent upon each other, so as to form one well-regulated system or whole.”

Should Wells Whole Form Law Attention Wise Creation Reader Calling Rain Various Dependent Essays Concluding

Book:Meteorological Observations and Essays: Mit Tabellen

Source: Meteorological Observations and Essays: Mit Tabellen

“If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.”

Ifs Attention Consciousness Calling Typography

Author:Michael Bierut

“Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.”

“My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.”

Firsts Said Real Problem Light Names Attention Changed Months Calling Cost Six Decided Agents Worried Productive Six Months Family Name

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.”

Differences Attention Creativity Calling Achievement Empty Angry Sake Following Contradiction Imperatives Delinquency Patriarch

Author:Robert McKee

“One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."”

“Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?”

Thinking Knows Men Success Young Attention Successful Calling Men And Women Tricks Do You Know Quarters Successful Man

Author:Storm Jameson

“Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.”

Men Giving Problem Pay Attention Issues Violence Calling Excuse Gender Pay Attention

Author:Jackson Katz

“Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing.”

Needs Use Love Is Attention Five Acceptance Higher Honor Calling Findings Affection Appreciation Atmosphere Allowing Fulfilled Fulfilling Being Loved

Book:Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

Source: Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

“How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.”

Ifs Ability Attention Audience Heard Calling Prepared Preparation Speakers Assistance

Book:The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

Source: The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

“The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.”

People Believe Humans Jesus Attention Failing Son Calling Worship Weakness Human Experience Supremacy Blueprints Jesus God Worship Jesus

Author:Michael Spencer

“Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.”

Looks Kids Parent Animal Attention Calling

Author:Jean Berko Gleason

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