“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
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Susan Sontag168
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004Related quotes
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Ce qui nous fait croire si facilement que les autres ont des défauts, c'est la facilité que l'on a de croire ce qu'on souhaite.
Variant translation: What makes us believe so easily that others have faults is the ease with which we believe what we hope for.
Maxim 25 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
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“I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/red-1994 of Three Colors: Red (2 December 1994) <br class="br">Reviews, Four star reviews <br class="br">Context: We are connected with some people and never meet others, but it could easily have happened otherwise. Looking back over a lifetime, we describe what happened as if it had a plan. To fully understand how accidental and random life is — how vast the odds are against any single event taking place — would be humbling. … This is the kind of film that makes you feel intensely alive while you're watching it, and sends you out into the streets afterwards eager to talk deeply and urgently, to the person you are with. Whoever that happens to be.
Qu Yuan (-343–-278 BC) ancient Chinese poet
Source: "Encountering Sorrow" (trans. David Hawkes), Line 127
Heber J. Grant (1856–1945) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Grant (1932) "Christmas Greetings from the First Presidency," Improvement Era Dec. 1932, 67.; Cited in " Heber J. Grant, Served 1918–1945 http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/presidents/controllers/potcController.jsp?leader=7&topic=quotes" on ids.org
Mary Wollstonecraft book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
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Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Context: An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them useful and permanent, they must be the growth of each particular soil, and the gradual fruit of the ripening understanding of the nation, matured by time, not forced by an unnatural fermentation.
Charlemagne (748–814) King of the Franks, King of Italy, and Holy Roman Emperor
Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
