I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humor books mind wit attention
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
Susan SontagTags: intelligence inspiration connection action observation attention concentration eagerness vitality
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.
Margaret MitchellWhenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.
Janet FitchTo pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary OliverTags: life poetry work attention
[I]m Internet [ist] Aufmerksamkeit eine echte Ware geworden, die sich bereits im Moment ihrer Entstehung vermarkten lässt.
Sascha LoboTags: advertising internet economy attention
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]
Tags: writing writers observation attention perspicacity
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: listening attention senses hearing inattention
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.
Julio CortázarTags: writing attention concentration coincidence
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
William HazlittTags: respect conversation listening attention hearing
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