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.
Maurice Strong

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
Vinoba Bhave

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
Quincy Jones

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

I think I'm a focus for international attention.
Sting

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Chamfort

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
Zooey Deschanel

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
Tom Cruise

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.
Daniel Johns

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?
Busta Rhymes

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
Alan Shepard

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.
Little Richard

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
Boris Yeltsin

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
Lorna Luft

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Camille Paglia

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver