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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
- Paid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paid absolutely no attention to politics as a teenager.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? Then, all of a sudden, we're getting one millennium's worth of media attention in six months.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
All enterprises and major players need to pay attention to the needs of the government of the country of which they are a part. At one level, it would be unconscionable for a company like Huawei not to be responsive to Chinese national-security needs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020