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“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

“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Ifs Hard Reading Opportunity Pleasure Attention Our Lives Land Quiet Conversation Intimate Restaurants Distraction Noisy Land Of Opportunity Pleasure Of Reading Intimate Conversation

Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.”

World Want Writing Mind Wells May Art Book Able Artist Pleasure Attention Study Pieces Products Reader Succeed Structure Admire Dividing

Author:Annie Dillard

“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.”

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“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

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.”

Giving Stills Happens Pleasure Attention Too Much Waste Concern Cameras Forests Something New Evaluate Tempo Motion Pictures Best American

Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

“Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.”

Giving Looks Long Enough Eye Pleasure Attention Millions Balance Benefits Forgotten Enterprise Reports Owners Quotations Sheets Shareholders Balance Sheets

Author:Benjamin Graham

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Ifs Way Giving Young Turns Girl Sex Pleasure Attention Boys Careers Return Sexuality Expected Popularity Young Women Career Success

Author:Cris Mazza

“I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Pleasure Attention Honest Give Me Dresses Lace Kilts

Author:Marc Jacobs