Attention Craving Quotes

#1. He s a small wisecracking blue blob who gets into trouble because of his mischievous mind and attention craving ego

Genndy Tarta Kovsky

#2. Although we may deplore the film's scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child.

Mark Leyner

#3. I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

Bruno Heller

#4. Greed in a good cause is still greed.

Stephen King

#5. There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Xun Zi

#6. The watercolor people hadn't moved, hadn't seen us, were still busy being dead and artistic. Good.

Devon Monk

#7. The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Meg Wolitzer

#8. Once you gave up the nervous craving to promote yourself, denigrate others, draw attention to your unique and special qualities, and ensure that you were first in the pecking order, you experienced an immense peace.

Karen Armstrong

#9. Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.

Ruth Reichl

#10. Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

Seneca The Younger

#11. I long for truth, and yet
I cannot stay from that
My better self disowns,
For a man's attention
Brings such satisfaction
To the craving in my bones.

William Butler Yeats

#12. Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill