“The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.” KnowsWantBookSometimesPhilosophyFilmFunAttentionStoresVideoShirtsShopsSectionsDenseWomen Want Author:Tobey Maguire
“If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.” IfsMindRealPhilosophyLastsCertainVoiceChallengesViewsAttentionGainsMereInsightTheologyEchoesNoveltyUnprepared Author:George Henry Lewes
“It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to be observed in the conducting of experiments, which cannot well be described in words, but which it is needless to describe, since practice will necessarily suggest them; though, like all other arts in which the hands and fingers are made use of, it is only much practice that can enable a person to go through complex experiments, of this or any kind, with ease and readiness.” WellsKindLittlesPersonsArtMadePhilosophyUseHandsAttentionKnownPracticeFingersComplexesExperimentsEaseReadinessConductingPrecaution Book:Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Source: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
“People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.” PeopleYearsStatesPhilosophyIndividualStrongPowerfulAttentionCapableVery StrongTantra Author:Frederick Lenz
“One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.” MindPersonsStatesPhilosophyAttentionFieldsMeatAffectedState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.” ArtPhilosophyChristianChristAttentionHistoryPaidSingle Word Author:Andre Gide
“Whoso turns his attention to the bitter strifes of these days and seeks a reason for the troubles that vex public and private life must come to the conclusion that a fruitful cause of the evils which now afflict, as well as of those which threaten us, lies in this: that false conclusions concerning divine and human things, which originated in the schools of philosophy, have crept into all the orders of the state, and have been accepted by the common consent of the masses.” HumansWellsHas BeensStatesReasonPhilosophySchoolLyingOrderTurnsEvilPoliticsCausesCommonAttentionEconomyTroubleDivineMassAcceptedConclusionBitterThese DaysLiberalismConsentPrivate LifeVex Author:Pope Leo XIII
“No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.” KnowsMenShouldChildrenPhilosophyPayAttentionEnemyWifeLife PhilosophyTreatsNeighborPay AttentionSermonsLecturesSubordinatesDelivering Author:Sydney J. Harris