#tract

But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing. ↗

— Jay Roach

#approval #as far as #bit #contractual #embarrassing

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me. ↗

— Ray Romano

#demeanor #distracts #focus #golfers #like

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#attractions #coming #everything #life #preview

We do not attract what we want, but what we are. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#want

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#because #chess #choice #competition #difficulties

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. ↗

— Anne Frank

#appear #attractive #gives #laziness #may

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consumption #control #distracted #force #own

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#anything #attracted #exposed #first #got

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one. ↗