Desperation For Attention Famous Quotes & Sayings
21 Desperation For Attention Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: "I wish I'd be murdered." Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.— Gillian Flynn
I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.— Loretta Lynn
I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.— Jack Black
I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.— Rickey Henderson
The vodka warmed his body nicely, like an invisible hand stroking him in places no one had touched in years.— Sharon Guskin
The truth is the best brands, like the most interesting people, have a keen sense of self.— David F. D'Alessandro
An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.— Peter Drucker
He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness. CHAPTER— Mark Twain
But whatever the exact psychology of the process {receiving recognition or literary success}, the present has a way of contaminating the past. And the writing will change accordingly. Turmoil and dilemma once experienced with a certain desperation may be seen more complacently as the writer reflects that through expressing them he has realized his inevitable and well-deserved triumph. The lean years of patient toil when no one paid attention may even begin to seem preferable to the present. The very thing you created in the heat of fierce concentration has destroyed the circumstances that made it possible. The writer is devoured along with his books.— Tim Parks
Friendship scattered across the globe is an enriching exchange: A look outside the box to understand people and their different cultures.— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Modern Western culture has placed what it calls sexuality in a more and more distinctively privileged relation to our most prized constructs of individual identity, truth, and knowledge, it becomes truer and truer that the language of sexuality not only intersects with but transforms the other languages and relations by which we know.— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.— Anita Sarkeesian
My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.— Junot Diaz
What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?— Gwen Harwood
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.— Douglas Horton
It is important to learn the difference between staying with an experience until it is completed and hanging on, trying to get something more-anything more-from a situation which is either finished or barren. The basic clues are whether attention to the issue is loose, unfixed, mobile attentiveness or whether it is an attentiveness which feels glued to its object. The people with the bug-eyed stare, the clinging grasp, the insistent preoccupations, the sense of desperation, the ready-made sermons, the unwillingness to leave when conversations are finished, the quoting of authorities, etc. are all hanging on.— Erving Polster
By February 2016, when Trump was already steaming toward the nomination, I began to realize the extent to which he'd conned all of us. He first used the media's financial desperation to secure free coverage, but when the attention became not just negative but condemnatory, he used that, too. He— Matt Taibbi
Death is the quiet haven of us all.— William Wordsworth
When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. Jiminy Cricket— Sheelagh McGrath
Never, never, never give up. Winston Spencer Churchill
Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word "clean" takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don't be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.— Sean Lennon
But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?— Rachel Cohn
