"I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?"

-- Uta Barth

#Trying Quotes #Attention Quotes #Way Quotes

“My belief, through my experiences, is that the world in which we live is but an illusionary world, a world that one day we will leave behind as we travel on toward our destiny and toward reality.”
“Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.”
“I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itselfâ€¦In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.”
“There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real, from the waves on the sea to wisps of wind blowing in the characters' hair. The feeling I get watching that scene is why I fly - just for that feeling.”
“Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”
“I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.”

Source : "The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola". Book by Roberto Ridolfi, 1952.
“The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.”

Source : David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.17, Paulist Press
“Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.”

Source : "How I Got Here - Olivia Magnusson Murray". Inteview with Georgina Cotton, www.eventmagazine.co.uk. October 23, 2013.

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