#attention

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bring #competing #disasters #emergencies #full

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more. ↗

— Raymond Floyd

#bit #course #going #golf #golf course

In the time it takes to heat a TV dinner, Clinton had convinced me that he was the smartest person in the room and that I was the center of his attention. In the next 25 years, I would see countless others fall just as quickly to the Clinton Touch. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#center #clinton #convinced #countless #dinner

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#acts #attention #believes #capture #few

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. ↗

— Barney Frank

#anything #attention #democrats #disagree #forfeit

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

#attention span #away #books #could #distraction

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#attention #being #drawback #full #give

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention. ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#attention #been #blows #come #even