- Health
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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
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
A problem shared is attention gained.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get an eighth of the attention of David Beckham, but it's still pretty heavy.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really the kind of person that wanted this kind of big attention everywhere. But on the other side, I'm glad that children are picking up a racket and they have an idol in myself.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020