Best attention & two Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

People Two Different Form Literature Force Hours Pay Attention Comedy Groups Painting Photography Tragedy Pay Attention Screenplays Soundtracks

Author:Paula Patton

“I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.”

World Feels Two Whole Attention Police South Sorry Caught Chinese Entering North Korea Korean Beijing North Korean Embassy Defectors

Author:Kim Young-sam

“There are primarily two ways people can drain your energy. They can get you to want them or what they have or they can get you to fear them. In order to drain you they must get into your attention field.”

People Way Want Two Order Energy Attention Fields Two Ways Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.”

Children Made Two Pay Attention My Children Who We Are

Author:Amy Waldman

“I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.”

Ifs Giving Littles Persons Long Two Bits Hours Perfect Attention Minutes Little Bit Give Me Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Courteney Cox

“In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated.”

Mind Firsts Long Two Use Running Energy Attention Steps Focus Meditation Gains Clarity Purity Long Jump

Author:S. N. Goenka

“An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived for a time in Davenport's coal cellar) once said: "There is no reason why theoretical economics should be a monopoly of the reactionaries." All my life I have tried to take this warning to heart, and I dare call it to your favorable attention.”

Should Heart Said Two Reason Attention Generations Economics Dare Reason Why No Reason Warning Coal Economist Monopoly Theoretical Reactionaries Cellars

Book:The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson, Volume 3

Source: The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson, Volume 3

“I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.”

Ifs Two Ideas Different Three Given Attention Extraordinary Manage Attention Span Best Gift Different Ideas

Author:Paul Newman

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”

Thinking Should Two Book Different Facts Attention Five Elements Six Paid Appearance Tricks Vain Propositions Geometry Algebra Obtaining Geometric

Author:Omar Khayyam

“If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.”

Ifs Looks Said Two Facts Age Next Force Attention Talking Steps Bears Argument Weight Relation Arguing Obsession Leap Disorder Nails Deficit Fascists Idiotic Attention Deficit Disorder Retorts

Author:Ann Coulter

“Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.”

Ifs Long Two Attention Sea Rivers Paid Fishes Legs Boat Lakes Fishing Wilderness Arrangements Stalking Swamps Long Legs Herons

Book:I Go A-fishing

Source: I Go A-fishing

“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.”

Thinking Knows Wells Littles Two Different Today Artist Wish Goal Decision Attention Path Honest Comfort Crowds Better Life Divergent True Artists Different Paths Well Wishes

Author:Tennessee Williams

“A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.”

Men Two Facts Pay Attention Produce Seasons Seeds Sensible Harvest Calumny

Author:James Anthony Froude

“Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.”

People Knows Two Important Opportunity Pay Attention Half Successful Minutes Pay Attention Successful People Exceed Attention Span

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.”

Two Attention Dog Deserve Parrots Two Dogs

Author:Cassie Steele

“Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.”

Heart Two Hands Energy Lines Attention Focus Meditation Buddhism Necks Bounce Transmit Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.”

Two Attention Doubt Deserve League Sixty Mvp

Author:Mark Grace

“Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.”

Kind Two Country Three Sound Pay Attention Audience Rocks Beats Historical Western Folks Heavy Rap Pay Attention Metals Cents Cult Heavy Metal Country Western

Author:Al Stewart

“That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”

Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

“Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.”

“There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.”

Two Spirit Loses Prayer Attention Constant Cherish Principal Preservation

Author:Francois Fenelon

“When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.”

Mind Two Action Lost Attention Pay Attention Sync

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“I'm doing all that I can to prod the industry and get them to pay more attention [to larger women and petite women]. Because I find it to be reprehensible and repugnant that two populations that are so pervasive in this nation should be so badly neglected.”

Should I Can Two Nations Pay Attention Industry Population Neglected Petite

Author:Tim Gunn

“To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.”

Ifs Needs Feels Humans Doe Two Done Sin Simple Attention Mistake Five Calling Mathematics Guilt Errors Committed Foolish Commit Guilty Pay Attention Plus Homework Simple Things Unprepared

Author:Rajneesh

“There are two components to biological information in the body, one is intention, the other is attention.”

Two Body Attention Information Intention Components

Author:Deepak Chopra

“It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.”

Two Lasts House Sides Hours Attention Gone Pieces Impossible Streets Car Painting Shops Cracks Abandoned New Orleans Rotting Mattresses

Author:Banksy

“At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.”

World Needs Two Whole Humor Funny Attention Wide Focused Corporations Two Things Annoying Tedious Epcot

Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.”

Humans Art Two Faces Attention Brain Focus Figures Baby Relation Architecture Landscape Our Relationship Dots Human Faces

Author:Dave McKean

“One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.”

Source: William Morris on Art and Socialism

“Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.”

World Needs Humans Two Problem Turns Human Beings Attention Week Produce Productions Goods Leisure Two Days

Author:Julian Huxley

“Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.”

Way Feels Writing Art Made Two Facts Attention Teacher Special Paper My Friends Math Saved Despite Pay Attention Two Ways

Author:Chuck Close

“People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.”

People Two Facts Turns Attention Opinion Cases Groups Amount Unique Add Rate Currents Warm Tendencies Dozen Inflation Similarity Analogies Dimes Snowflake Slush

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“When I was 20, I was contemplating quitting. I was at the first event of the season and I overhead a conversation between two girls. One told the other, "God still loves you," and that caught my attention. Later that day, I caught up with the girl and asked her what she meant. Before then, I'd never really thought about God. But there was an undeniable stirring in me and I couldn't ignore it.”

Firsts Stills Two Girl Attention Love You Events Conversation Seasons Caught Quitting Contemplating Caught Up Stirring Overhead Still Love You

Author:Kelly Clark

“There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course and that is what gets all the attention, there's two countries in the world right now that actually have a Federal mandate to enact penal law according to the Sharia, that's Saudi Arabia, and Iran.”

World Should Two Country Law Three Courses Attention Issues Fit Right Now Iran Division Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Mandates Two Countries Sharia

Author:Mark Durie

“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

“I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.”

Long Two Hard Attention Projects Attention Span Really Long

Author:Joe Swanberg

“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.”

People Feels Two Matter Shows Attention Amount Conversation Empathy Research Phones Two Things Elsewhere Signals Decrease

Author:Judy Woodruff

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