Quotes About Drawing Attention To Yourself

#1. People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

Eric S. Raymond

#2. There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.

Larissa Ione

#3. Perhaps love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the bumpy ride worthwhile and provides a glorious destination.

Michael R. Burch

#4. You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

Prince Philip

#5. I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

Russell Tovey

#6. Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost.
Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking.

Shirley Karr

#7. Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

Alison Elliott

#8. Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

Lynne Truss

#9. Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

Robertson Davies

#10. No. The dream was just my subconscious mind's way of drawing attention to something I'd seen without perceiving its significance.

Jonathan L. Howard

#11. Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

Miranda Lambert

#13. I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio

Martin Sheen

#14. Thorne cleared his throat. "We need to get back to the house. We've already risked drawing enough attention, and she..." He looked at Winter. There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was. "...will definitely draw attention.

Marissa Meyer

#15. Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Gautama Buddha

#16. I showed her my cubicle of commercial artistry, and drew her attention to my latest project. "Oh, that's lovely," she said when I pointed out the drawing of a nymph with flowers in her freshly shampooed hair. "That's really nice." That "nice" remark almost spoiled my day.

Thomas Ligotti

#17. We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.

Cesar Milstein

#18. For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth. To hear the voice of God and do His will, whatever it is.

Wayne Watson

#19. I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Rachel Weisz

#20. Never stop dreaming. Never stop listening to the music that is inside of you.

Debasish Mridha

#21. After a short silence, he said, "We grew up together, we're in love, and she's going to marry me."
Quinn choked on the water he'd just brought to his lips, drawing everyone's attention to him. He recovered quickly, replaced the glass, and stared at Nico as though he were an alien

Penny Reid

#22. People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

Frederick Buechner

#24. Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

Quinn Cummings

#25. My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

Shakira

#26. How can scholars continue to honor the unique and important histories of individual tribal nations and Indian communities while simultaneously drawing attention to ways that the nineteenth-century Native experiences shaped the United States in profound ways?

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

#27. Like Hitler, the president used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against himself. The president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people. In

Timothy Snyder

#28. RBG has never been very interested in drawing attention to herself without a good reason. That's how you know that when she does send up smoke signals, something has gone very wrong.

Irin Carmon

#29. You really think you can buy some rope without drawing attention?"
Lopen lounged back against the wall. "My cousin's never failed me."
"How many cousins do you have, anyway?" Earless Jaks asked.
"A man can never have enough cousins," Lopen said.

Brandon Sanderson

#30. To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing
it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

Alan Lee

#31. Sometimes you could see disaster coming, like an erratic wave that kept drawing, drawing, drawing attention to the beach until whoosh a swimmer becomes victim to its grasp.

Alessandra Torre

#32. The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

Bill Watterson

#33. You have something to give and are willing to give it. You do this without fanfare or publicity, drawing attention to the God we worship, not yourselves, and with no thought of what you will receive.That's what disciples do!.

Linda K. Burton

#34. Drawing attention to Gretchen's weight was the sort of behavior my mother referred to as 'stirring the turd,' and I did it a lot that summer.

David Sedaris

#35. You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

Jesse Jackson

#36. The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics.

Eric Maskin

#37. Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.

Jimmy Fallon

#38. He thought about how fire is like rust. Using oxygen to swallow up the world.

Anonymous

#39. Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

Sheryl Sandberg

#40. I shouldn't think I'll have the slightest problem playing a man," she said. "I shall merely remember to rearrange my breeches in front at least once an hour, thereby drawing attention to the padding I carefully placed there in the morning, and I'll blend in perfectly.

Eloisa James

#41. The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Taylor Hackford