#attention

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#because #black #day #express #express yourself

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

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

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

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

— Judith Martin

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

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appointment #attention #did #everything #everywhere

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#awards #been #bringing #competitive #deserving

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

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#america #attention #i #i see #paying