"Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements."

"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic"

"A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching and so forth. The more dramatic organization does catch attention quicker. Over the long haul, however, it's a lot more difficult to keep together because you're not building solid...A lasting organization is one in which people will continue to build, develop and move when you are not there."

"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around."

"A person's got to fight for every single thing they get,' she said slowly. 'And I've noticed a lot of times that the farther down a kid comes in the family the better the kid really is."

"Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention."

"Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure"

When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be.

"To be around me, you must love food, or I'm the most obnoxious person you've ever met."

“I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted," said Egremont.”

"Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention."

“Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.” 

The best style is the style you don’t notice.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”

“All you have to do is pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready.”

It has never been easier to create content self-published, but it has never been harder to get the attention you want, or need, to really put something into orbit.

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” 

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes with a two by four to get its attention.

It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon