Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.
It's strange how things seem to come full circle. You know what I mean? I'm sure you do. The way your life seems to drift along with no set path, then something good happens to you and you can trace the line that brought you there back to a specific ...
It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you.If you focus on looking st...
Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say “Come back” and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you ...
Planning. Short-term memory. Attention. At first glance, these three frontal lobe functions can seem like diverse activities that just happen to be packed into the same brain region. But on closer inspection it turns out that they are facets of the s...
Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about hi...
The whole message of the Course is: do not wait. In other words, salvation is offered to you this instant; be vigilant! Watch your mind. Be as attentive as you can this very instant. And the Course does not give specifics, like if this arises, do tha...
I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.
I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
Well, all cricket invites attention.
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.
I have no inclination to seek attention.
My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
I knew this for a fact. Little by little, the ache to see him, to hear him would disappear. Little by little I’d forget how his arms felt, how his fingers felt, how his lips felt..the sound of his voice, the intensity of his gaze, all of it. Trace ...
A little belief, a little faith, a little hope is sometimes all we need, to see the light.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
