"If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth."
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"If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living."
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"You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore."
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"Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value."
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"Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it."
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"People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention."
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"I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been."
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"I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't."
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"Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation."
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"Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance."
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"I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States."
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"Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form."
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"I was always jealous of something getting more attention."
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"I was always making my friends laugh but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom."
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"Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems."
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"I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it."
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"Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world."
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"Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself.""
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"The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth."
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"I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!"
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