“Writers show us the glades we'd missed, the trickling voices of streams, the eyes of a barn owl watching us. A writer… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Everybody's family plays them music, and my grandma used to play a lot of old-school stuff, like Ron Isley and Gladys Knight.… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped… — Allen West Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed that anyone is paying attention to anything that I do, you know what I mean? I feel like I'm… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
“I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Leadership is a process that involves setting a PURPOSE AND DIRECTION which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly; paying attention… — James Scouller Copy Share Image
We found ourselves becoming more serious about playing music than our friends were - or just more committed and had more meaningful… — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People… — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
“There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make sure that the visual connections between the disparate elements are strong enough for the viewer to keep moving… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
It seems to me that large numbers of people are now paying attention to poverty and that large numbers now understand that… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“As I asked more pointed questions about the choices and behaviors Wholehearted men and women made to reduce anxiety, they explained that… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Because consciousness is awareness, awareness is paying attention, and paying attention is being present and noticing, this consciousness would be aware of… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
It's easy to sit there in the dugout when the game's going on and talk, chitchat about this and that. But I… — J. D. Martinez Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See") "heuristic writing - writing to explore and discover what I didn't know.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
We honestly shouldn't be paying attention to nothing Kanye West says until he actually goes out there and gets the help we… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
“I called to Ash, still doing small laps and not paying attention. I jumped to my feet, still backing up and pointing… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn't destiny any… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Downloading's the same as what I used to do. I used to tape the charts of the songs I liked [off the… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“„One down,” I said, turning to Kale. He wasn't paying attention. His gaze was fixed on the red silk baby doll in… — Jus Accardo Copy Share Image
“He picked up her gun. Pointed it at her. Pulled the trigger. Isabet jumped like a startled lizard. He handed the gun… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image