Pastoral Resources

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.