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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
- Nov 07, 2020
If something catches your attention, it's probably going to catch the attention of others, too.
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These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
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Every black comedian in the country knew what I could do. But that doesn't mean everyone else is paying attention.
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One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
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At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
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It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
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This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.
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I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.
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The podcasts that keep my attention are those where I can feel the hosts and guests are enjoying themselves or are really passionate about the subject matter.
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