Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as…

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself.…

— William James

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting…

— Tom Brokaw

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public…

— Henry Lawson

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like…

— Natalie Goldberg

Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all…

— Ammon Hennacy

Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not…

— Bill O'Reilly

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was…

— Bobby McFerrin

I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.

— Hillary Clinton

A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough…

— John Dewey

When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending…

— Marcus Aurelius

I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that when it finally arrives,…

— Karch Kiraly

President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice…

— Conan O'Brien

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of…

— Liya Kebede