Attention Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie Download Open image “It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.” — Lascelles Abercrombie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Books Difficult Reader
Sometimes it's better to not read too much, to not listen to everybody. — Angelique Kerber Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers". — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. — John Green Copy Share Image
You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual books everyone's… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word,… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and… — Lascelles Abercrombie 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
![“I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the prayer in…” quote by Mahershala Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d31/mahershala-ali-6687_attention_i-went-to-a-mosque-in-philadelphia-with_3083.jpg)
