Attention Quote by Carlisle Floyd Download Open image “Opera is given so little attention in the national press.” — Carlisle Floyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Given Little National Opera Press
It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image