Alain de Botton Quotes, Photography Quotes, Attention Quotes

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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Relax...90% of haters are begging for love. 10% just want a little attention

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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

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

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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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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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[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

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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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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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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

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The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

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

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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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Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

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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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