“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.” PeopleTwoDifferentFormLiteratureForceHoursPayAttentionComedyGroupsPaintingPhotographyTragedyPay AttentionScreenplaysSoundtracks 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.” WorldFeelsTwoWholeAttentionPoliceSouthSorryCaughtChineseEnteringNorth KoreaKoreanBeijingNorth KoreanEmbassyDefectors 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.” PeopleWayWantTwoOrderEnergyAttentionFieldsTwo WaysDrains 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.” ChildrenMadeTwoPayAttentionMy ChildrenWho 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.” IfsGivingLittlesPersonsLongTwoBitsHoursPerfectAttentionMinutesLittle BitGive MeAttention SpanShort 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.” MindFirstsLongTwoUseRunningEnergyAttentionStepsFocusMeditationGainsClarityPurityLong 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.” ShouldHeartSaidTwoReasonAttentionGenerationsEconomicsDareReason WhyNo ReasonWarningCoalEconomistMonopolyTheoreticalReactionariesCellars 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.” IfsTwoIdeasDifferentThreeGivenAttentionExtraordinaryManageAttention SpanBest GiftDifferent 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.” WritingHas BeensTwoBookEnoughAblePastFormAttentionGreaterWrittenAmountDecadesJournalismRememberedEngagedFascinatedEssaysHarborsWriting A BookAmusedDisdainSponsorship Book:This Quiet Dust and Other Writings 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.” ThinkingShouldTwoBookDifferentFactsAttentionFiveElementsSixPaidAppearanceTricksVainPropositionsGeometryAlgebraObtainingGeometric Author:Omar Khayyam