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Attention Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
- 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…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
- To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
- Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
- In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
- Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon…
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