It turns out all those GIFs and videos that strike us as cute and amusing are actually moving us at a much deeper level making our hearts race and our palms sweat, making us gasp and sit up straight in our chairs.
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Then it made more of its driver-less car technology and augmented reality (Google glasses) and we started to sit up and listen to Google once more.
High profile content like Howard Stern and Oprah Winfrey made prospective customer sit up and take notice.
We think it honors our heritage to the blue box while taking it forward and we want our customers to sit up and take notice of Gap and see what it stands for today.
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When the yet-to-be-hired Knight-sponsored fellows have wrapped up their investigations and sit down to draw up those best practices, will they conclude that most of what the Tribune has accomplished can be exported, or is it a flower that can only thrive in the soil of the Lone Star state?
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The popularity of the brand grew quickly, helped by marketing and advertising campaigns designed to make customers sit up and take notice.
Dollhouse, helmed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Wheedon, will be joined by two more animated series (another signature of the young-skewing network): Family Guy-spinoff Cleveland and Mitch Hurwitz's Sit Down and Shut Up.
Now, moving forward, I think the question is going to be can Democrats and Republicans sit down together and come up with a set of ideas that address those core concerns.
Although a number of other groups in the UK have pursued a satellite launcher capability, the pedigree of SSTL and Virgin Galactic is likely to make potential investors sit up and take notice.
Her CV also includes a major role in Europe for Google, so she is very well plugged into the major Silicon Valley powerhouses and should be able to make the big venture capital firms sit up and take notice when she promotes London.
BlackBerry users know that stellar Twitter clients have been hard to come by, so whenever a major new release hits the streets, it's something that makes the BlackBerry-carrying Twitter addicts out there -- and there are many of them, rest assured -- sit up and take notice.
But when you even hint at such a thing, and begin doing so often, and make it an accepted tone of discourse, sooner or later the truly crazed will sit up and listen, and you will reap the whirlwind.
Ruma knew that the house, with the rooms her mother had decorated and the bed in which she liked to sit up doing crossword puzzles and the stove on which she'd cooked, was too big for her father now.
To do that you both need to sit down and come up with an annual budget.
Enough to make a decent docent sit up and take notice, wouldn't you think?
That is a figure that would make even China sit up and pay attention.
Perhaps coverage of such programs might cause legislators to sit up and take notice.
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Officials Friday said he was able to sit up and appeared to be recovering.
Council leader Dilwyn Roberts told the meeting it "made people sit up and listen".
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"He could sit back and dream up daredevil schemes that other men would hazard, " writes Anwar.
The kind of creative work that makes me sit up and take notice in admiration and appreciation.
It was a warning, without flash cards but with recent evidence, that made delegates sit up and applaud.
When the trend spread to America in the 1990s, bourbon producers began to sit up and take notice.
Surprises not only get your audience to sit up and pay attention, they make your story more memorable.
When a company with super-hot products like Apple announces a Black Friday sale, consumers sit up and notice.
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Godin rarely complains about anything so when he does do a critique it makes people sit up and listen.
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President Barack Obama's warning about Syria's unconventional weapons arsenal is one of those "sit up and take notice" moments.
Feelings can be red flags telling you to sit up and pay attention.
But if France can successfully set the example, everybody else will be forced to sit up and take note.
So when these two guys collaborate, beer nerds sit up and take notice.
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