Pastoral Resources

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.