[last lines] Alice's sister: Alice... Alice... will you kindly pay attention and recite your lesson? Alice: [waking up after escaping the mob] Hm? Oh. Oh, uh, how doth the little crocodile improve each shining tail and pour the waters of the... Alice...
Much of the time the mind is wandering, either drawn to focus, ruminate, or push away unpleasant experiences, or chasing after stuff we like. But if we don’t practise being still, we are prone to get blown about by every wind, buffeted by the ups a...
How remote we were too from the crazy musicians who arrived on a blustery fall day with the idea that, since this was a financial center, there would be a rain of coins from the tall buildings in response to their trumpet, guitar, and bass fiddle. Th...
Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject t...
Blake: A-I-D-A. Attention, Interest, Decision, Action. Attention - Do I have you attention? Interest - Are you interested? I know you are, because it's fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks. Decision - Have you made your decision for Christ? ...
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
When you pay for security, it seems like you’re paying for nothing—and that’s the point. You’re paying so nothing happens. Safety is the absence of something.
In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay.
I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
Give a man your attention Lose his Ignore a man Gain his attention
I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
Lies never pay the toll.
You get what you pay for.
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
Pay the doctor, praise the Lord.
A dead man pays no debts.
