People only have so much attention.
Attention is a main asset in marketing.
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you�...
Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compass...
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to s...
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.
I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
I love men and I like to get their attention.
There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
ay attention to peace; peace is all that matters.
I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.
I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.
