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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention Quotes
On focus, distraction, and where our attention lands.
This set includes a scientist recalling an early assistantship in electron microscopy that shaped a career of close attention, alongside a broader point about attention flowing toward relationships in hope of satisfaction that doesn't always arrive. See Being quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the case.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in the NFL now, and it's nothing like what we did at USC. Not at all. The only difference between my college and other colleges is the games we won and the attention we got because of it. Obviously being in Los Angeles plays a huge role in the publicity. We don't have a football team in L.A., so we kind of are like the pro team.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many writers, the endless performance of being a writer - tweeting, appearing, making the rounds - is required simply to attract enough attention to make a living.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020