Pastoral Resources

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.