Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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• It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • True
  • Attention
  • Dreams

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Attention
  • My Life

• The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Great
  • Education

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'

  

  Raekwon
  • Real
  • Help
  • Attention

• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Attention

• Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Different
  • Business

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Fear
  • Respect
  • Attention

• As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I've earned a living doing.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Bad
  • Attention

• While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Attention
  • Single

• I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Attention

• I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Attention

• As a fighter, I pay very close attention to the amount of marketing that goes into and around my fights, and I can tell you that you'd be hard pressed to find much that has been done to promote me outside of 'TUF 24,' which was minimal in comparison to other fights, fighters, and shows.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Marketing

• Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Attention
  • Desire

• I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Attention

• I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Attention
  • Celebrate

• An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Good
  • Writing

• There are a lot of good racquetball players out there, but playing the game and knowing the game are two different things. Because I had no direction, I had to feel the game.

  

  Kane Waselenchuk
  • Good
  • Different
  • Game

• A little bit of attention can go a long way.

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Attention
  • Long Way