#attention

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#attention span #been #good #i #never

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#attention #been #bit #call #i

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#also #assume #attention #aware #because

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

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#attention #detail #i #i think #paying

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

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#directors #even #i #like #lot

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

— Jeff Miller

#criminal #far #often #paid #see