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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of making images of the parts of the body that we all have but that no one pays attention to, like the soft area underneath your nose.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
- Nov 07, 2020
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Integrity is the distinctive Santoni trait. Their attention for the longevity of good product matches the widely-felt need for fashion that's less superficial and volatile.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning an Oscar attracts the attention of directors and other actors and creates a boost in salary, particularly for someone like Halle Berry. For an established star like Denzel Washington, the benefits are less tangible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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