A Quote by Darcey Bussell

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry. — © Darcey Bussell
A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.
There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.
Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.
Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.
I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.
You know, people hate me or love me and I just don't even bother paying attention to it anymore.
You make a mistake, you better hope I wasn't paying attention and didn't see it, but if I catch you doing it and you think I'm not paying attention, then that's when you get in trouble.
I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.
You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.
In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.
Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'
Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.
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