Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Attention Quotes

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's never easy to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.

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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.

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Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

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If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it

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A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

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I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

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The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

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What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

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I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

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The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

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I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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