Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in… — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I don't pay attention to the 'marginalizers.' They simply don't have any impact anymore, on where we're headed or what the law… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Jeb's Bush front-runner status was short lived, to say the least. But who could have predicted that the Republican front-runner would be… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Over the years, I developed an extreme hostility towards the non-profit art organization gulag. I formed the opinion that it's actually a… — Mark Flood Copy Share Image
You're gonna die. You're gonna die. And nobody's gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter,… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
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I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Cherish those who have proven their love. It's a lot easier for someone to be nice to you on a beautiful day… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I think her comments - Hillary's Clinton comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I meet a lot of people who are awkward around me now. I was always embarrassed about that; the more attention I… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
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Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
I spent a long time in the shadows. I always had this feeling that I was the only one going through stuff,… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
Putin is now nationalist. And what he does is, he tells the Russian people, OK, you may have a little less chicken… — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
People pay attention when they see that God actually changes persons and sets them free. When a new Christian stands up and… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image