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“What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.”

“While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.”

People Ifs Attention Consciousness Practice Fronts Pages Bases Crisis Climate Environmental Fishes

Author:Daniel Pauly

“It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.”

Effort Attention Fronts Happenings Pious

Book:Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.”

Pay Attention Minutes Fronts Lessons Pay Attention Champion

Author:Claudio Ranieri

“I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.”

Natural Behinds Attention Fronts Scene Creating Cameras Pops Glad Lenses Relieved Behind The Scenes

Author:David Lee Roth

“Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.”

Source: A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit

“I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.”

Happens Eye Attention Fronts Happenings Paid Something New Passages Passage Of Time

Author:William Eggleston

“I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.”

Reason Actors Attention Stage Fronts Cameras Interaction

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.”