Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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.
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.
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.
Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.
