“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.” IfsCertainWishAnswersAttentionFocusHairAmountFeministAppearanceDistractionEyebrowsSisterhood Author:Louise Mensch
“When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.” TryingKindStatesAmericaAnswersAttentionSawsMissingNeededSafeCriticismMmaUnwillingTheatricalRivalryMiss America Author:Ronda Rousey
“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .” LiteratureSocialAnswersDealsAttentionPracticeObjectsTheoryNeededShapesCriticismGenreAestheticBentSystematicAnatomyLiterary TheoryLiterary Genre Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.” GivingWritingLongImportantMomentsSeemsForceSimpleAnswersPayAttentionWeekHonestHonestyJudgingClaimsTrackGrantedBeing HonestPay AttentionAmazedDo Not JudgePrecious Life Author:Brenda Shoshanna
“One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.” MenMayTwoIdeasWarRealEarthTogetherCausesAnswersCommonAttentionMillionsDangerVictoryThousandTenDrawsHundredAgreeMadFoolishWhy NotOne ManFanaticsTangibleMadmen Book:William Morris on Art and Socialism Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism
“Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.” WayNeedsEnoughProblemGoalAnswersDealsAttentionCreativityCreativeModelsExcitingRemoveKeep GoingGood Life Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.” ProblemSpiritualPrayerAnswersAttentionNo ProblemPassportsSpiritual PowerFaith Prayers Author:Thomas S. Monson