"Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention."
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"Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve."
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"Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging."
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"Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new."
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"The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships."
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"I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things."
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"Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me."
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"Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them."
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"People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention."
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"I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away."
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"I published so many books, which, for years, didn't get published here in America, at all - and which barely got any attention in England. So it wasn't going to take much to make me feel suddenly famous. So - yeah - after 20 years, I'm an overnight success."
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"Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones."
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"I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners."
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"It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so."
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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
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"You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing."
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"I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair."
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"To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad."
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"[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention."
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"But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets."
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