"Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Witold Gombrowicz

#Focus Quotes #Attention Quotes #Maps Quotes

“What gets made that's considered for men - it's really just T&A stuff. It's not stuff than any guy I know really wants to watch, you know, the stuff with jiggling ***** and all that. Something with real sort of male themes and male strength and things I want to watch in a drama.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.”
“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
“Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.”
“Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.”
“Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.”
“No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.”
“As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.”

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