Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.
It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday
If you're a nobody, just imagine a lot of celebrities are in love with you. Narcissism is the best cure for attention deficit disorder.
We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.
Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
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.
A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.
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.
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.
