“Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.”
“Geniuses never pay attention.”
“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”
“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”
“People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to”
“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”