#attention

She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...] My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed. Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see. ↗

— Jaclyn Moriarty

#getting-into-trouble #humor #humour #hyperactivity #beauty

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] ↗

— Susan Sontag

#observation #perspicacity #writers #writing #observation

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #focus #worry #life

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention? ↗

— Joshua Foer

#lose #memories #pay-attention #art

A little bit of attention can go a long way. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#bit #go #little #little bit #long

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out. ↗

— Chiaki Kuriyama

#amount #appreciation #attention #different #different sense

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#attention #been #between #couch #few

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#attention deficit #deficit #disorder #foreign #foreign policy

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#attention span #bad #bad habit #first #first of all

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#desperate #family #i #just #most