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«We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.»
Author: Dwight L. Moody
(Evangelist)
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«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.»
«Newspapermen, as journalists used to be called, have long been charged with the sin of cynicism. a characterization that many of us encourage to deflect attention from our far more widespread flaw, incorrigible sentimentalism.»
Author: Robert Manning
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call attention, characterization, charged, deflect, deflected, flaw, incorrigible, Journalists, newspaperman, newspapermen, Sentimentalism
«If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.»
Author: Robert Quillen
| About:
Genius
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accurately, call attention, chiefly, steadily, surveyed, till we
«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?»
«The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.»
«Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
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call attention, coax, coaxed, go about, jumping, lap, rubbing
«If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
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«The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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Relationships
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call attention, dancer, fan, speaker, The Fan, toastmaster
«Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Criticism
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