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“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.”

Humans Wells Happens Certain Interesting Attention Circumstances Experiments Psychological Fragile Entity Traffic Fluid Threshold

Author:Tom Vanderbilt

“I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Said Sometimes Matter Energy Interesting Attention Seeing Benefits Photography Paid Photograph Visuals Unbearable Every Second Taking Pictures

Author:Saul Leiter

“The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.”

Way Culture Interesting Attention Audience Opposites Originality

Author:Ron Perlman

“The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.”

Giving May Ideas Asks Interesting Attention Authority Authenticity Chinese No Idea Curse Phrases Lowest Trilogies Interesting Times

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.”

Ifs Pain Interesting Attention Boring Things In Life And Off

Book:Rise of Endymion

Source: Rise of Endymion

“Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality our garden is filled with all sorts of interesting items--it was not, after all, a fallow place before we sought to investigate what might be there and what we could possibly put in it. Everyone's spiritual garden is different, because each individual is unique.”

Needs Firsts Doe Different Might Spiritual Spirituality Individual Interesting Attention Journey Unique Garden Filled Constant Items

Book:A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft

Source: A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft

“I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.”

People Thinking Love Is Interesting Attention Effects Admire Being Famous Getting Laid

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.”

Way Bigs Reading Interesting Levels Attention Some Interesting Misreading

Author:Brian Evenson

“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”

Able Interesting Levels Attention Particular Listening Accommodate Ambient Ambient Music

Author:Brian Eno

“The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single family, might exhibit an interesting and instructive picture of human manners; but the tedious repetition of vague and declamatory complaints would fatigue the attention of the most patient reader.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.”

People Different President Interesting Pay Attention Opinion Roles

Author:Bill Pullman

“Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.”

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.”

Made Book Character Reading Found Lines Interesting Attention Pages Track Fats Interesting Characters Snail

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.”

Writing Firsts Kind Able Action Certain Language Interesting Attention Connections Smallest Documents Spontaneity

Author:Anne Waldman

“That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.”

Ifs Writing Hard Jobs Can Do Interesting Pay Attention Hard Work Late Ignorant Pay Attention Good Job Interesting Things

Author:Lydia Davis

“What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke up. That's an interesting phenomenon. It was even interesting back in the day. I mean, [we were] this glorified garage band. It was a great band, but it was not the kind of band you expected to become what it has.”

Years Kind Mean Doe Interesting Attention Amount Band Gun Originals Rose Surprise Expected Broke Phenomenon Garage Surprise Me Broke Up Back In The Day Guns N Roses

Author:Slash

“For me to start working, projects have to catch my attention whether they are here (in the USA) or in Mexico. All I want is to be involved in projects that are interesting to me, projects that are a challenge wherever they may happen, in Spain, in China, or in Hollywood.”

Want May Happens Challenges Interesting Attention Involved Projects Hollywood China Usa Mexico Spain

Author:Kate del Castillo

“I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.”

Ifs Running Interesting Pay Attention Comedy Musician Theater Raised Pay Attention Classic Orchestra Violin Classic Music

Author:Larry Wall

“There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.”

Girl Interesting Attention One Thing Groups Behavior Reactions Pay Attention Surround Gang Hysteria

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Stills Ideas Real Character Stuff Interesting Attention Building Comfort Shots Sentences Pay Attention Ease Interesting Stuff

Author:Dana Spiotta

“There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.”

“Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.”

Interesting Deals Attention Draws Life And Death Mortality

Author:Rosario Dawson