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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.