People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.
But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.
The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.
Humans don’t make sense.” “If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.
To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.
When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.
And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.
The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.
Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren't conscious of the fact they have wronged you; sometimes you shouldn't care enough to bring it to their attention.
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.
The more projects you do, the more actors you meet, the more people you meet, it's harder and harder to give your heart and your complete attention or absolute sincerity to that person.
