“Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation.” MenPerfectAttentionPreparedDetailsCarefulDevotionConfusionObservationPreparationPocketsInterferePreciseMisunderstandingReflectingTorchesKnotsAttention To Detail Author:T. S. Eliot
“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.” YearsAttentionEducationFourFootballPreparationFour YearsFraternityProfessional Work Author:Robert M. Hutchins
“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.” NeedsDoneWholeHappensPainLastsDesireFeltSecretAttentionDoorsMinutesStageTerribleRagePreparationAirplaneCrashThirstPreparingSuicidalHostilityAlleviateLast MinutePsychiatricParachutesVengeful Author:Tracy Thompson
“Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.” NeedsSometimesDoneStoriesFilmEnergyAttentionSubjectsAmountOkayExcitedObjectivesPreparationEnthusiasticSomewhere Else Author:Colin Farrell