Quotes About Attention

as in Welles' pictures (or in Renoir's) through depth of focus but by virtue of a diabolic speed of vision which seems for the first time to be wedded here to the pure rhythm of attention. Undoubtedly all good editing takes this into consideration. The traditional device of shot-reverse-shot divides up the dialogue according to an elementary syntax of interest.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Bet kai tik kieno nors žvilgsnis, šypsena, sakinys, gestas atkreipia m?s? d?mes?, m?s? vaizduot?, nepaisydama valios, jau ir ima ?žvelgti anapus j? slypin?ias galimybes. Šit moteris mums dav? dingst? - nors ir menk? - tik?tis.

Po ketvir?io valandos intymaus bendravimo dviej? žmoni?, kurie jau?ia ne meil?, o tik trauk? kits kitam, atsiranda toks pasitik?jimas, toks lengvas bendravimas, toks švelnus d?mesys, koki? kartais nesitik?k n? po dešimties labai tvirtos draugyst?s met?.

If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.

if there is no feet at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.

Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...

It's a strange but consistent trait of people who consider themselves unattractive. They look embarrassed if you suggest that they might be interested in someone; because they feel unworthy of receiving attention, they also deny that they would dare to give it.

When the American novelist Howard Sturgis lay on his deathbed he was cared for so solicitously by his life partner that at one point Sturgis had to remind him, "A watched pot never boils"—surely one of the wittiest comments ever made while dying, unless you consider what the socialite Drue Heinz said when nearing the end—"They won't even let you take a book"—or the emperor Vespasian, who remarked on his deathbed, "I think I am turning into a god.

Given the brief attention span of the American people, the liberation of tiny Kuwait eclipsed the fall of the Berlin Wall as a historical turning point.

It's almost out of sight out of mind because there's so many cards. One great fight could happens one weekend and another great fight happens next weekend, you kind of get swallowed up in that pack. So you have to find a way to separate yourself and what better way to do that than on ESPN?

If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk about her on the weekends.

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

I looked at 'Us Weekly' and said, 'I want to be famous.'

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air.

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

When I was working on 'Men of Honor' with Robert De Niro, there's a pipe that he has in the movie, and it took us about six weeks to find the right pipe for him to use and feel comfortable with. It was a great choice, because it was really about what worked with the camera at that time.