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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.
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had lost his eyesight, so if we placed something somewhere, it had to be in the right spot, exactly, or something could go wrong. That's the attention to detail I demand at the workplace.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it was because my resignation letter was well written, and this attracted the attention of the factory supervisor. They kept me on and gave me a promotion to head up my own newly created department.
- Pay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
- Errors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're out there, you aren't paying attention to who you're throwing to. You're looking for the guy that's open.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020