“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.” PeopleBelieveLittlesDifferentSometimesSeemsGirlIndividualSexWomenLosesAttentionPathSubjectsTalentGoes OnMarkPaidMethodEvolveAviationFeminineInstructionInitiativeMasculineDividingIndividual Talent Author:Amelia Earhart
“I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.” SocialAttentionEffectsRevolutionDegreesComputerPaidMagazinesSoftwareDevelopersColumnists Author:Charles Stross
“I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.” HappensEyeAttentionFrontsHappeningsPaidSomething NewPassagesPassage Of Time Author:William Eggleston
“If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.” IfsAttentionLosingPaidFascinatingFarmersDentistAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Terry Pratchett
“Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.” ShouldSoundAttentionCriticismPaidCraftsAlarmsAdverse Author:Dorothy Salisbury Davis
“While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.” WorldOrderSocialLevelsAttentionStepsEconomyProductsMembersElementsPaidCriticalFocusedWelfareStatisticsEmphasisGrossGdpReliabilityBarometerSocial WelfareGross Domestic Product Author:Jose Angel Gurria
“Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.” IfsAttentionParticularEvidencePaidThinkerObjectivityMaintenanceGreat Thinkers Author:Charlie Munger
“Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensIdeasHardWholeFormAttentionRecordsTheoryModelsEconomicsPaidSevenInvestingTeethFinanceCorporateFairyAssetsAcademicEfficientPercentagesDescendantsObscenityPricingVolatilityTooth FairyEfficient Markets Author:Charlie Munger
“After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.” ImportantInspirationUsedFeltMy OwnSimpleAttentionIssuesBabyMarriedPaidMy Own LifeSimple ThingsMy Baby Author:Cecelia Ahern
“At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!” FirstsFunAttentionAudiencePaidBobSpeakersPresentationFun Work Author:Zig Ziglar
“People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldTryingSchoolTogetherReadingAttentionGoneTroublePaidHarmSundayGood WorkBotheredDoing GoodSleevesAnnoyedSunday SchoolReading The Bible Author:Jack McDevitt
“As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.” ActorsAttentionPaid Author:Eric Balfour
“There's little things like that, that we paid a lot of attention to. We don't always know how to bond together to get help or to do something, and our attempts are often awkward, selfish or weird. We talked a lot about how to open things up.” KnowsLittlesHelpingTogetherAttentionKnow HowPaidSelfishLittle ThingsAwkward Author:Remi Aubuchon
“Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.” EnoughSeemsGamesAttentionCasesProductsPersonalityPaidUpsetEndorsements Author:Jerry West
“Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.” WantHappensActionPastPrayerAttentionListeningMy FamilyPaidMy FutureMy Past Author:Adam Savage
“Positivity psychology is part and parcel of psychology. Being human includes both ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. Positive psychology devotes somewhat more attention to the ups and the opportunities, whereas traditional psychology - at least historically - has paid more attention to the downs.” HumansOpportunityChallengesAttentionPsychologyPaidPositivityTraditionalBeing HumanUps & DownsPositive PsychologyParcelOpportunities And Challenges Author:Barbara Fredrickson
“I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.” LongStuffAttentionAspectPaid Author:Joan Jett
“My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.” SometimesBodyAttentionLaughingMy FriendsPaidMaintenance Author:Lynne Tillman
“The first time I actually heard any of the Beatles' music it was in a car. I think it was the, the B side of their first record. I think it was "I Want to ... I Want to Hold Your Hand". And it, it really sounded different to me. And it sounded a bit like trouble, like this is something new 'cause I very rarely paid any attention to what anyone else was doing.” ThinkingWantFirstsDifferentHandsCausesBitsSidesAttentionRecordsTroubleHeardCarFirst TimePaidSomething New Author:Jeff Barry
“In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.” PersonsFilmCoursesHouseLeftMemoriesAttentionClassMorningBecomingDirectorsPaidTheaterNeighborhoodEvery MorningCrashIntrospectiveScreenwritersMovie TheaterKurosawaRenoir Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.” MeanLanguageTermAttentionFictionPaidExperimentationSophistication Author:Karen Russell
“We have got to go and compete for the minds and the hearts and the votes of everybody in this country, no matter who they are. And what I think we've had is one party takes a group of people for granted and another party has not paid attention to them.” PeopleThinkingMindHeartCountryMatterPartyAttentionGroupsVotePaidGranted Author:Paul Ryan
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.” IfsKnowsAttentionPaidSexistBrackets Author:David Brooks
“A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.” MenWantLongHas BeensTwoImportantStoriesAmericaFormSoundAttentionGenerationsTalentHabitMen And WomenPaidRadioNarrativeJournalistLatinNonfictionGiftedProposeLatin AmericaNew GenerationGroundbreaking Author:Daniel Alarcon
“Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.” WayBelieveLongHas BeensFoundAttentionNew YorkAreasPaidSpeciesRangeIslandsTigersAsianVirusesTransmitMosquitoesConnecticutLong IslandCoastalMetro Author:Laura Harrington
“She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there.” IfsThinkingWellsHas BeensMadeSaidImportantNationsUnitedAttentionKnownPaidImportant ThingsBlowRepresentativesWell KnownUnited NationsPersona Author:William A. Rusher
“I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.” IfsSocialBornAttentionEconomicConflictLowsPaidCarefulAffluenceHighs And LowsDialectics Author:Elena Ferrante
“I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.” HeartEnoughMovingAttentionMy HeartMessagesPaidHealMoving Forward Author:Tom Shadyac
“I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.” ThinkingYoungAttentionBoysGrowing UpGrowingParticularPicksPaidGirlfriendYoung WomenMy Girlfriend Author:Bo Derek
“The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.” Has BeensProblemAttentionPrinciplesIdentityPaidPropertyHardest Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It's like, oh, come on. Or it's caused by poverty. We faced those kind of issues. But now, with the new regime, they have really woken up, paid attention. And when South Africa speaks, then the whole of Africa will listen. And I have got great hopes for that.” IfsKindSaidWholeSpeakPresidentAttentionPovertyIssuesPaidSouthAidsRegimesSouth AfricaShowersGreat Hope Author:Elton John
“I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.” PeopleIfsThinkingChanceAttentionPaidHorribleDictator Author:Judy Woodruff
“As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing” WantedSongAttentionRecordsEmotionalPaidCommunicateTitlesLengthDescribing Author:Jacob Bannon
“The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels I was working with at the time saying, "If this was any other period, I would probably say this is too fast, but because this is first time anybody has ever paid attention to Spoon, let's keep it on an upward trajectory."” IfsFirstsRememberGirlAttentionPeriodsFirst TimePaidLabelsMoonlightSpoonsTrajectory Author:John Britt Daniel
“I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.” AttentionPaidJazz Author:Oprah Winfrey
“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenYoungLostParentBlackCommunityWhitePoorAttentionTalkingViolenceParticularGunPaidSlaveryCampaignsVulnerableBlack PeopleAdulthoodDisabledCrusadesGun ViolenceLynchingBlack Community Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“There's more attention paid to entertainers than ever and less that they have to say. Not that entertainers were ever a great beacon of knowledge to begin with, but at least when the Beatles were the leaders of the culture, they had a message. It was brief; it wasn't terribly complicated. "Give Peace a Chance." "All You Need is Love." But at least they were trying. At least they had grown.” NeedsGivingTryingCultureChanceAttentionLeaderMessagesPaidComplicatedEntertainersBeaconsLove Is All You Need Author:Bill Maher
“I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.” PeopleSaidAttentionFictionProgramClaimsPaidGenreGraduates Author:Sandra Cisneros
“In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention.” ThinkingYearsTwoFactsAttentionPaidRememberedArmstrong Author:Kevin Gutzman
“Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.” WritingDoeBookAttentionPracticeDoorsSpringPaidCaughtExcitedBonesFinishedNew Books Author:Natalie Goldberg
“I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.” IfsThinkingWayDoneHappensAttentionSawsHappenedKingsPaidPressesThings HappenOne WayBusLutherBirmingham Author:Garry Winogrand
“The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.” YearsWellsLittlesProblemLastsOpportunityTermWealthAttentionParticularDevelopmentDeservePaidEastDecadesPrioritiesRussiaRegionsSignificanceTerritoryFuture Development Author:Vladimir Putin
“Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.” AttentionPaidRussiaIsisAssad Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you talk to anybody who's been successful in business, they will tell you the thing that matters the most are people. And clearly, in this case, the quality of the people was not paid attention to. By the board and I don't know what they were doing. And I think there is a certain accountability by the board here.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMatterCertainAttentionQualityCasesSuccessfulPaidBoardsAccountabilityThings That Matter Author:John Kasich
“There are no winners in this election [2016]. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's [Clinton] a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.” TwoFactsShowsRealityGuySportsPartyAttentionTvsMonthsTrumpPoliticianRepublicanPaidElectionClintonWinnerDepressingTv ShowsRepublican PartyComebackTwo MonthsNominationsReality TvNo Winners Author:Bill Burr
“My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!” WorldHandsKidsTogetherPoliticalMotherPassionFatherFunCausesAttentionWatchesRightsEventsInvolvedSixMy FamilyPaidScaredCurrentsCivil RightsWorriedMinistersEngagedImmigrantsConventionsMethodistsCurrent EventsBarbadosPanama Author:Gwen Ifill
“I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.” ChildrenLittlesPresidentRealizingAttentionPaidFounders Author:Paul Kengor
“I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.” NeedsFeelsYearsHas BeensWholePastAttentionTalkingFiveConversationSixHappeningsPaidImpactPrisonDialogueReformVansOver The PastBipartisanNewtsPrison Reform Author:Ava DuVernay
“What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.” ThinkingFirstsAttentionStepsOfficePaidBottomDialogueMotivatedFirst StepsAttorneyAisle Author:Ava DuVernay