#attention

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#attention #daily #days #did #eight

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#attention #child #force #going #hope

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#attention #being #first #first time #got

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#always #around #attention #dead #everything

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. ↗

— Alan Watts

#conscious #ego #focus #nothing #other

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#any #attention #inches #just #measure

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#folks #get #more #organization #organized

We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words--and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41) ↗

— Thomas Newkirk

#reading #writing #art