“I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.” MayLittlesFacesUsedFallCoursesActorsBitsChallengesNumbersPayAttentionPossibilityHealthyLittle BitVery GoodObstaclesPay AttentionFlatsYour FaceAccentsCaptainsCaptain Jack Author:Johnny Depp
“How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.” BookWould BePastAttentionEnemyStudyHealthySickDepthWorthyAnalysisUnconsciousPriestsThrillingJarsForecastsNot WorthyFetusConsolingOld Books Author:Edmund White
“I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.” PeopleThinkingEndsLevelsAttentionFansHealthyCriticismHollywoodUps & DownsRehab Author:Lauren Conrad
“Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.” BookAgeAttentionHealthyPay AttentionMarketplaceBookstores Author:Mary Karr
“The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just rich. The word "healthy" doesn't exist in French. We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.” PeopleMeanAttentionRichHealthyFancyFeedingForeignersCuisineFattening Author:Alain Ducasse
“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.” GivingMindHeartArtWholeMomentsSufferingSpiritualityAttentionPracticeWorryHealthyConflictEssentialsSingingConsciousTasksBreathsPay AttentionThat MomentHeart And MindHealthy Life Author:Jason Mraz
“Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself.” NeedsEnergyRealizingChallengesHealingAttentionChildhoodHealthyConstantTake TimeNurtureRestraint Author:Vimala McClure
“It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.” HeartSelfAbilityAttentionFocusHealthyApproachBeing Me Author:Nick Baylis
“At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.” ChildrenSchoolValuesSportsAttentionClassTeacherSpecialStudentsDevelopmentHealthyFoundationLaysEmphasisRelianceRatiosTeacher Student Author:Nita Ambani
“I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.” IfsThinkingWayGivingLooksImportantMatterOpportunityEnergyCommunityAttentionInfluenceHealthyDeserveLook Up Author:Nia Long
“Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a combat zone not to pay attention to it. At least that's how it struck me; others may have had an entirely different war experience.” MayDifferentWarPlayPayAttentionComedyToo MuchSeeingHealthyPay AttentionIronyZoneCombatAbsurdityDistortion Author:Dave Abrams
“I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff [Man Booker Prize] very much. I think part of it is I can see myself wondering who's doing what and getting jealous, and none of that's healthy for me. So I just don't really.” ThinkingMenI CanStuffSoundPayAttentionWonderHealthyPay AttentionPrizeJealousBullshit Author:Paul Beatty
“If you pay a little bit of attention to something, and then let it go, and then come back to it, and then pay a little bit of attention to something, that's nice and healthy.” IfsLittlesBitsPayAttentionNiceHealthyLittle BitLet It Go Author:Dominic Monaghan
“If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsHumansImportantAttentionHonestHonorHealthyCarrieAttachmentCompassionateBeing Human Author:Tara Brach
“When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me in a certain way, in my mind, it means they don't love me or they don't respect me. Bringing awareness to the beliefs that are underneath the attachment and bringing awareness to the way my body and heart are tightening, helps me wake up and re-inhabit a larger space of being. Holding on and pushing away might be going on but I'm freer to respond in a healthy way.” IfsWayMindHeartMeanHelpingBodyMightCertainBeliefSpaceAttentionWatchesAwarenessHealthyHappeningsWake UpPay AttentionHelp MePushingAttachmentHolding OnRespect MePushing Away Author:Tara Brach
“Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.” AttentionAcceptingHealthy Author:Laura Huxley
“How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.” AttentionHealthyEatingCompetingSibling Author:Rose Byrne
“I think nervousness - a heightened sense of nerves and attention is a very healthy thing for a performer. It is an artificial environment that you are going into whether it's concert or recital, or stage. When I know something so well, I've done it so often, and you kind of walk out for Tuesday night's performance, or you feel like that, that makes me more nervous then being geared up. A little bit like race horses. In the same way that the horses are always difficult to get into that lineup, the worst time of my life is the 10 or 15 minutes before I go on stage.” ThinkingKindDoneDifficultAttentionEnvironmentWorstHealthyHorseNervousTuesdayNervousness Author:Thomas Hampson
“Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available to us within our human hearing range. The most valuable information throughout human evolution has been faint sounds. We tend to think in our modern world that if it's loud, if it grabs our attention, it's important. We get a lot of that in advertising. But in nature, it's the faintest sound that's important; it has determined, in the past of our ancestors, perhaps, if they will live or die. Faint sounds are the earliest clues of newly arriving information.” ThinkingWorldImportantPastAttentionModernEvolutionHealthyValuableDeterminedAdvertisingAncestorClueHuman Evolution Author:Gordon Hempton
“We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.” ShouldMindBodyAbleValuesDifficultPayAttentionGreaterHealthyHealSaltMind And BodyDefenceObesityImbalanceAllergies Author:David Suzuki
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” WayGivingFeelsPersonsBookRealRealityReadingImaginationAttentionHealthyOppositesGive MeContactBlissAccomplishedDisorderSmarterDeficitBetter PersonAttention Deficit DisorderToo Real Author:Nora Ephron