#attention

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#books #humor #mind #wit #humor

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#attention #awareness #carefulness #caution #consciousness

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#attention #life #prove #success #truth

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#attention #beautiful #best #convinced #dwell

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#coping #find #good #hotels #i

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. ↗

— Richard Armour

#children #concentrating #demand #each #fail

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#attention #children #had #jungle #living

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze. ↗

— George Vancouver

#attention #being #breeze #considering #continued

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#acoustic guitar #assuming #attention #best #foot

One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#artists #attention #awful #been #being