“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLittlesTwoDifferentTodayArtistWishGoalDecisionAttentionPathHonestComfortCrowdsBetter LifeDivergentTrue ArtistsDifferent PathsWell Wishes Author:Tennessee Williams
“[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.” WayFeelsPayAttentionHabitComfortDrugPay AttentionSmokingOccupationDistractionCasual Author:Margaret Cho
“I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansLittlesSaidCarePoliticalAttentionPathRightsPlanetsComfortPropertyActivismParksBikeAbstractionProperty RightsEnvironmentalistHuman NeedsPolitical ActivismVolvo Author:George Carlin
“Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?” ShouldEnoughAttentionComfortShould IHonored Author:William Nicholson
“I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsSometimesProblemHomeHandsAbleFallProcessAttentionFocusComfortDemandIntellectualMental HealthAidsMoodRoutineBad DayAbsorbingBad MoodComfort FoodRumination Author:Maria Popova
“If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingStillsIdeasRealCharacterStuffInterestingAttentionBuildingComfortShotsSentencesPay AttentionEaseInteresting Stuff Author:Dana Spiotta
“It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.” NeedsGivingHeartInspirationSpiritualTurnsVoicePrayerAttentionLordCuttingSourceComfortGiving UpTragedyAdversityHearingRevelationsSpiritual LifeHopelessnessPerilGreat TragedyLifelines Author:David S. Baxter