A Quote by Twyla Tharp

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

Twyla Tharp

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Attention God Hope Inattention Survive Survived

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Twyla Tharp
American - Dancer
Born: July 1, 1941

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.

Janet Morris

In 'A Chosen Few,' I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive.

Mark Kurlansky

In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.

Edward Zwick

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Robert Andrews Millikan

I didn't survive because I was stronger than others. I survived because my family and friends helped me to survive. They took my place. My job is to give them back their dignity, tell their story, and say their names.

Rithy Panh

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Bruce Schneier

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

Bel Kaufman

That's the essence of our faith. It's living with hope in the face of mystery. We live a life of faith completely full of hope, staring mystery right in the face. You can't have one without the other. Your faith won't survive without hope, and hope won't survive without the realization that there are mysteries that will not be answered. If you can embrace both, you can have a vibrant faith.

Kay Warren

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

William James

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

Mariska Hargitay

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

Jeannette Walls

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived - whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman.

Junot Diaz

If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.