#attention

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#aligned #any #attention #basically #because

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#archetypal #attention #beauties #because #bodies

People only have so much attention. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#much #only #people

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter. ↗

— Judith Martin

#e-mail #give #glance #letter #more

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate. ↗

— James McAvoy

#bones #character #charm #charming #deliberate

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#ago #attention #because #brought #fact

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#criminal #far #often #paid #see

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#attract #does #find #hard #i

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#characteristic #die #double #impossibility #live

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#became #every #every time #everybody #habit