"There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to."

-- Antonya Nelson

#Going Away Quotes #Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.”
“Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.”
“Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.”
“He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled. "You smell so good in the rain," he explained. "In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously. He sighed. "Both, always both.”
“I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.”
“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”
“For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.”

Source : "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.
“It's also important that I, or [Producer] Karen Pritzker, also say that this film [ "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope"] is not going to singlehandedly solve crime and poverty, or make big changes.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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