A Quote by Marilynne Robinson

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

Marilynne Robinson

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Attention Deserves Give Interesting Planet

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Marilynne Robinson
American - Novelist
Born: November 26, 1943

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

Jon Stewart

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

Tom Hanks

My fans deserve all the attention I can give them, but my son deserves his father.

Xzibit

I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.

Nia Long

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

David Allen

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

Michael Ian Black

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

Michael Ian Black

You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

David Meerman Scott

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

Natalie Portman

The PHYSICAL Act gives our schools the flexibility they need to give physical education the attention it deserves in promoting our children's well-being.

Marcia Fudge

It's a strange thing to have a successful television show because if it's too interesting... people don't really pay attention when they watch TV. It has to be good, but not so interesting that you really have to pay attention because people multitask. So, if a show demands your entire attention, it has a tough time making it.

Kurt Fuller

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

Patrick Rothfuss

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.