People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread. — Mother Teresa
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. — Marilyn Ferguson
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams
To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and on one’s neighbour in relation to God. — C. S. Lewis
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection. — Deepak Chopra
The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don’t be paranoiac. — Paulo Coelho
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. — Douglas Horton
Here’s the thing – the accent is cool. It’s like a girl with big breasts – they get your attention first. — Kevin Costner
If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention. — James Lileks
I believe miracles are like seeds. When planted and watered by our attention and appreciation, they bloom. — James Van Praagh
There’s no shortage of attention junkies with large breasts in Hollywood but only Michael Moore’s are real. — Argus Hamilton
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation. — Adyashanti
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention! — Matt Redman
My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they’ve gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time. — Jamie Lee Curtis
What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?” “You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything. — Maria V. Snyder
What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness. — Deepak Chopra
There’s a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a ’30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention. — Jay McInerney
Somewhere around the place I’ve got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger’s Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting. — Terry Pratchett
The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff. — Jerry I. Porras
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy. — Mark Poster
One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all – indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one’s life. — Catherine Marshall
Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases. — Charles Baudelaire
As we gradually open that bubble and allow the luminous being inside to come out, your second attention will develop and you’ll begin to see, deal with, and become the totality of yourself. — Frederick Lenz
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing. — Frederick Lenz
The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal. — Kieran Culkin
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. — Kenny Guinn
I must add… my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world. — Karen Barad
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better. — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention. — Thomas Mann
If a chef says to you that he sits down and eats dinner before service, then it’s bulls***. And if they do, then I’d tell them that they are a fat f***! You shouldn’t indulge, because you need to keep your palate on edge, and keeping it on edge is all about small attention to detail and tweaking along the way. — Gordon Ramsay
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,–a real, not an imaginary,–and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. — Thomas Carlyle
If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There’s always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people. — Ray Lewis
I wasn’t doing it to shock anybody or to be rebellious or to get attention making “Heart-Shaped Glasses” with Marilyn Manson. I was more proud of that than anything because it took a lot of strength and bravery to put myself out there like that. It was a risk. I’m glad that I did it because usually the best things I’ve done have come from the biggest risks. Thirteen was a risk and that was amazing. — Evan Rachel Wood
