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Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.