We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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.
A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.
for the Law, as we know, will befriend whomever pays it.
Don't worry...Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
Decide what you want to be.... Pay the Price ... And be what you want to be.
Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.
Kindness: a waltz with forgiveness and hope.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
