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“The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.”

Way May Long Art Life Is Pay Attention Struggle Gone Willing Honor Long Time Paid Regard Notes Rewards Privilege Creator Sensible Citing Art Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.'”

World Whole Pay Attention Willing Honor Please Demand Whole World Pay Attention Length Korea North Korea

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.”

Ifs Giving Should Ends Artist Attention Imagine Honor Hey Museums Mary Masterpiece Offended Resent Hey You

Book:Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

Source: Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

“Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.”

Feels Simple Attention Honor Degrees Simple Things

Author:Charlotte Selver

“By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.”

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.”

Ifs Should Wells Mean Enough Attention Honor Capable Blind Faults Rewards Manners Gentleman Officers Approval Courtesy One Word Refined Subordinates Naval Liberal Education

Author:John Paul Jones

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.”

Ifs World Values Pay Attention Confidence Honor Raises Critics Assured Statues Self Esteem And Confidence No Confidence Raise Self Esteem Help Self Esteem

Author:Jean Sibelius

“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.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Humans Important Attention Honest Honor Healthy Carrie Attachment Compassionate Being Human

Author:Tara Brach

“Water is a miracle - it takes so many forms - is the core of life - is holy. So it becomes important to pay utmost attention to the holiness which is this planet's life - blood, which we are destroying. I always look for it in a poem. I honor it. I pay it mind.”

Mind Important Water Attention Honor Holy Miracle

Author:Jorie Graham

“'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.”

Men May Art Happens Science Certain Emotion Attention Virtue Honest Honesty Serious Fine Honor Taste Cherish Temper Honest Man Frailty Liberal Arts

Author:David Hume