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“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Feelings Romance Literature Attention Serious Standards Critics Beach Topics Unworthy About Family Double Standard

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.”

Ifs Attention Leader Issues Risk Effects Serious Threat Oneself Ugly Drawing Characteristics Agendas Brushes Rivals Identification Identifying Woman Leader Drawing Attention

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.”

I Can Young Girl Attention One Thing Serious Dancing Come Up

Author:PSY

“The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.”

Ifs World Understanding Community Money Pay Attention Brain Serious Scientist Investment Financial Wave Academia

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.”

People Knows Giving Should Persons Young Force Process Sin Attention Too Much Danger Serious Duty Aging Unfolding Memories Dreams Reflections Inexorable Contractions

Author:Carl Jung

“Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has contributed significantly to the problems. The design team or installers did not pay sufficient attention to the needs of those who would be using the equipment, so confusion or error was almost unavoidable.”

Needs Humans Shows Problem Would Be Pay Attention Situation Team Design Serious Errors Careful Accidents Confusion Analysis Sufficient Equipment Installation Human Error

Author:Donald A. Norman

“A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.”

Ifs Matter Pay Attention Dangerous Serious Baby Quiet Democrat Noise

Author:Will Rogers

“There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.”

Enough Certain Fall Black Attention Serious Claims Illness Critical Holes Black Hole Unlucky Radius Solipsism Serious Illness

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.”

Thinking Giving Feels Firsts Believe Pain Walks Attention Streets Serious Don't Believe Panic Strain Panic Attacks

Author:Ellie Goulding

“It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.”

People Order Change Attention Serious Cost Foolish Dazzle

Book:Lesbian nation: the feminist solution

Source: Lesbian nation: the feminist solution

“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

“Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played. It demands serious attention. I hear in these players a sense of common purpose and resolve, and a strong command of a dialect uniquely suited to this music. It's heartening to hear music that looks to find its own particular place.”

Wells Looks Long Purpose Strong Common Attention Player Written Heard Particular Serious Demand Command Resolve Partisans Refreshing Dialect Well Written Uncompromising Common Purpose

Author:Steve Swallow

“If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.”

Ifs Men Real Use Wealth Poor Attention Successful Serious Difficulty Income Employed

Book:A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

Source: A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

“If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.”

Ifs Writing Pay Attention Company Accepting Serious Becoming Agents Helpful Editors Becoming More Manuscripts

Author:Ann M. Martin

“On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.”

Ifs Looks Persons Has Beens Hands Attention Cases Issues Our Lives Crazy Crime Serious Like You Tough Victim Harm Honestly

Author:Bill James

“Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.”

World Government Past Attention Serious Months Citizens Protect Increase Despite Genocide Sudan Darfur

Author:Tom Allen

“A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.”

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.”

Wells Has Beens Process Pay Attention Known Century Serious Research Characteristics Principal Well Known Educator

Book:The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about

Source: The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about

“Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.”

Reality Levels Attention Brain Serious Obstacles Familiar Breathing Urges Rejects Totality Uncontrollable Primates Uncontrollable Urge

Author:E. J. Gold

“I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out of three I know something about the reviewer, and in very few cases have I any respect for his judgments. Thus his praise, if he praises me, leaves me unmoved. I can't recall any review that has even influenced me in the slightest. I live in sort of a vacuum, and I suspect that most other writers do, too. It is hard to imagine one of the great ones paying any serious attention to contemporary opinion.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Two Book Hard Three Attention Opinion Cases Imagine Effects Serious Judgment Praise Contemporary Suspects Reviews Recalls Leaving Me Vacuums Great Ones Reviewers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.”

Source: About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times

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