Attract Quotes

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention. (Edith Sitwell)
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior'. View quote
Rita Rudner
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year. View quote
Mitchell Zuckoff
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. View quote
Charles Schwab
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. (Anna Held)
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. View quote
Bruce Beresford
You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options. View quote
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. View quote
Imelda Staunton
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. View quote
Germaine Greer
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible. View quote
Italo Calvino
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders. View quote
Steve Ballmer
I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't. View quote
Sienna Miller
In songbirds, it is generally the male of the species that sings, and for some species, the larger the repertoire, the more likely it is to attract a mate. View quote
Daniel Levitin
... the best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense. (Ronald Fisher)
Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. View quote
Mandell Creighton
Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop. View quote
Ben Hecht
Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior?" View quote
Rita Rudner