A Quote by Douglas Adams

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

Douglas Adams

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Attention Away Draw Job Power Presidents

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Douglas Adams
English - Writer
March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

Douglas Adams

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention.

Robert Greene

Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.

Nancy Duarte

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you.

William Shakespeare

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

John Steinbeck

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

Vanessa L. Williams

Serious relationships draw us away from the circle of friends that seemed so adequate, so fulfilling. Marriage cements these inward movements. Children draw partners closer, but they can also draw you further away from the friends and lives you once knew.

Kim Brooks

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

Ethan Canin

If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

Olivia Wilde

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Ben Okri

I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.

Lisa Lutz

I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

Damon Galgut

Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem...

Lewis Black

All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.