#attention

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#always #attention #detail #effort #every

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#buying #committees #decisions #each #fundamental

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#aware #bringing #celebrities #effective #making

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21) ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#happiness #joy #mindfulness #peace #present-moment

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed. ↗

— George Combe

#air #already #also #attention #breathed

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. ↗

— George Combe

#become #brain #brief #fatigued #i

'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#food #food network #get #getting #great

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#attention #bubbling #close #close attention #facts

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#attention #away #book #come #last