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“All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.”

World Together Universe Attention Color Buddhism Band Perception Bounds Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute.”

Source: The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy

“Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.”

Light Happens Values Next Waiting Dark Attention Color Painting Oil Accidents Dimensions Pigment

Author:Robert Warren

“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.”

Knows Children Form Attention Quality Color Exercise Judgment Senses Comparison Repetition

Author:Maria Montessori

“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.”

“All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.”

Knows Way Needs Giving Mean Different Pay Attention Talent Color Size Pay Attention Different Ways Compliment Different Colors

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.”

Men Given Attention Century Color Absolutes Command One Man Coast Monarchs Living Color

Author:Walter Wriston

“Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.”

“In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.”

Thinking Looks May Whole Pay Attention Rich Color Painting Areas Landscape Colorful

Author:Matt Smith

“I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal...I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.”

Thinking Feels Looks Has Beens Important Beautiful Young Girl Attention Objects Color Normal Affection Ugly Like Me Look Up Young Women Very Sad

Author:Mindy Kaling

“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."”

People Want Trying Form White Attention Responsibility Color Like You Conscious Lays Privilege Patterns Checks Accounting

Author:Bocafloja

“In the digital world we live in, there is no pixel who thinks they're better than any other pixel. And there is no pixel that will not work with another pixel to produce something. And when two pixels come together and have children, they'll place any attention to what the color is and nobody says anything.”

Thinking World Children Two Together Attention Produce Color Digital Say Anything Digital World Pixels

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.”

Ifs Would Be Attention Color Right Now Skins Barack

Author:John H. McWhorter

“If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.”

Ifs Knows Years Lasts Attention Color Paper Computer Screens Pay Attention Shocked Computer Screen

Author:Jill Stein