Many things make the ideal magazine story. But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never would have imagined being interested in. And you leave them with a sense of wonder. I have to think more about this.
I wanted to be a "serious artist. " Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.
A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger. " pg. 287
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention
I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.
Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.
In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
I think we're at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds - racial diversity, gender diversity, making room for a continuum that is more inclusive.
Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
I've always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said.
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books. . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.