- Gay
- |
- 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
- Accurately
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
- Police
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
- Only
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.
- Play
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.
- Power
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
- Old
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
- Mature
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
- Living
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
- Name
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
- Making
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.
- Everyone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
- Mean
- |
- Nov 07, 2020