Best attention & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

People Two Different Form Literature Force Hours Pay Attention Comedy Groups Painting Photography Tragedy Pay Attention Screenplays Soundtracks

Author:Paula Patton

“Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described.”

Kind Persons Care Form Process Pleasure Attention Responsibility Compassion Instruments Precise Precision

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.”

Form Attention Depth Sentiments Originality Power Of Thought Frivolity

Author:Madame de Stael

“I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.”

Men Ideas Form Attention Style Very Good Boring Suits Agents Typical Looking Good

Author:Guy Ritchie

“The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.”

Real Form Interest Attention Education Study Objects Development Faculty Sole

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.”

Knows Children Form Attention Quality Color Exercise Judgment Senses Comparison Repetition

Author:Maria Montessori

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.”

Self Form Attention Information Students Masters Discovery Self Discovery Block Zen Master Transference

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.”

Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study

“The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.”

Self Form Desire Attention Objects Weak Vanity Dread

Book:Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge

“I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.”

God Form Joy Prayer Secret Attention Practice Teacher Particular Conversation Silent Technique Devotion Overwhelming Abandoned Habitual Conversations With God

Author:Brother Lawrence

“Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.”

People Trying Children Form Attention Amount Habit Eating Marketing Chains Clients Nurture Fast Food Youngsters Food Chain Eating Habits Eating Fast Food

Author:Eric Schlosser

“If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.”

Ifs Giving Mind Self Feelings Form Attention Selfishness Arrogance Contracts Disgusting Renewal Avarice

Book:On Self and Social Organization

Source: On Self and Social Organization

“I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.”

Kind Children Stills Form Actors Levels Existence Attention Fantasy Development Crave Arrested

Author:Hugh Laurie

“What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by.”

“For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.”

Writing Form Pay Attention Dialogue Rhythm Tone Writing Music Writing Dialogue

Author:Sefi Atta

“Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.”

Form Language Attention Definitions

Author:Robert Morgan

“Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.”

Thinking Age Form Literature Easy Attention Wonderful Digital Digital Age Attention Span Zips

Author:Rita Dove

“In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it. Only the state can make sure that no child is left behind. The only question is the means: will we use the union and bureaucracies favored by the left, or the market incentives and vouchers favored by the right. I don't want to get into a debate about which means is better, but only to draw attention to the reality that these are both forms of planning that compromise the freedom of families to manage their own affairs.”

“Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.”

Form Attention Subjects Degrees Intellectual Obligation Adherence

Book:Letter to a Priest

Source: Letter to a Priest

“I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then they got a lot of attention in Europe. A lot of bands that can't catch flies in the US have these followings in Europe, [but] it's less and less the case. American audiences are way more sophisticated and adventurous than anyone thinks that they are.”

People Thinking Way Believe Art Form Attention Cases Audience Band Europe Jazz Seeking Following Sophisticated Adventurous Validity

Author:Andrew Bird

“Clearly the path of mitzvot is a form of meditation. The intention to act impeccably requires complete dedication and unwavering attention. I was also impressed with LUzzato's insistence that mitzvot practice is joyful.”

Form Attention Practice Path Meditation Intention Dedication Joyful Impressed Insistence Unwavering

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.”

“We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.”

World Looks Made Care Form Attention Consciousness Study Method Intention Combination Native Chemistry Chemicals Healer

Author:Terence McKenna

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