A Quote by Clay Shirky

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Clay Shirky

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Attention Between Fame Imbalance Simply

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Clay Shirky
American - Writer
Born: 1964

We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.

Asa Hutchinson

India has a sizeable chunk of the Asian travel market - both inbound and outbound travel.

Gillian Tans

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

Jerry Thomas

Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.

William Finnegan

If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.

Guy Kawasaki

There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not.

Hope Jahren

There's a difference between fame and fame for fame's sake.

Dustin Lance Black

When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.

Rajneesh

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

Robert Fulghum

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

Michael Schumacher

there is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side." - jace

Cassandra Clare

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

Stanley Kunitz

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.