Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Art isn’t really about raw unmediated access to reality: that’s reality. You get that at the bus stop. Art is about interpreting reality, pointing up certain aspects of it, focusing attention.

Elizabeth Bear

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • Political
  • Reality

• The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Reality

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Acting

• For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Attention
  • Serious
  • Young

• We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Leader

• Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Know

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I've earned a living doing.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Bad
  • Attention

• Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Reality
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important
  • Attention

• What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Attention

• I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Attention

• There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Attention
  • Ugly

• You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • For Her

• Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

  

  George Lucas
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Determines

• An air of anticipation hung over the lab. The pied crow—whose name, according to Tasha, was Pitch, and who had been raised in captivity, bouncing from wildlife center to wildlife center before winding up living in my sister’s private aviary—gripped her perch stubbornly with her talons and averted her eyes from the screen, refusing to react to the avatar that was trying to catch her attention. She’d been ignoring the screen for over an hour, shutting out four researchers and a bored linguist who was convinced that I was in the middle of some sort of creative breakdown.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Attention
  • Screen
  • Anticipation

• I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Health
  • King

• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Universe

• Art isn’t really about raw unmediated access to reality: that’s reality. You get that at the bus stop. Art is about interpreting reality, pointing up certain aspects of it, focusing attention.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Reality
  • Attention
  • Bus stop