Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That allows me to manage myself better.
I think it's nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you've done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer con...
Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomi...
Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place...
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.
Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.
Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.
The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...
We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
Thinking happens in your heart. Put your attention in your heart. Ask the questions from your heart. Then listen to your heart.
