“Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.” MindStillsSoundPayAttentionSilenceOpeningPay AttentionOpening UpPortalSilence Is Golden Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.” IfsWantAttentionCareersStageWhat You WantOpening Author:Robert Greene
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.” MenGivingMindCharacterBodyWomenHoursViewsAttentionTaughtShapesPrisonRoundsVariousPursuitOpeningEmploymentTriumphCagesInsignificantConfinedInfancyRoaming Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.” IfsTryingAmericaBitsRoomsAttentionDecidedOpeningHotelGossipGigsColumnsHotel Rooms Author:Eddie Izzard
“You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.” FirstsHardAttentionSceneCreatorCreditStrikesOpeningZoneViewersGrabbingBond Movie Author:Claude Lelouch
“If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.” IfsThinkingLongHas BeensStillsAmericaGuyBlackWhiteAttentionHellDoorsMusicianLifetimeCaughtBritishOpeningThanksPay AttentionOpened Doors Author:B. B. King