Attention Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Humor People Pointless Prove Wit Witty Witty sayings
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You know, when people say ‘nothing’, that always means it’s something. If people would just say something other than nothing, people wouldn’t be as… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
“The great drawback of being witty is that you have to keep your eyes fixed on the semi-idiots around you, and absorb their worthless… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Pointlessly musing over the pointlessness of pointlessness personified seemed somehow pointless...” — T. C. Filburn Copy Share Image
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
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