- Race
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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
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to survive. We fashion ourselves accordingly. And then, should that attention ever go away, it's only natural to do the same things we've always done, rely on what we've always relied on, in order to make it come back.
- Heady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.
- Delight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just got the mindset of really wanting to open the game up to new people. I kind of want to create a massive attention around snooker.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Twenty One Pilots' is a play by Arthur Miller, who also wrote 'All My Sons.' It's about a guy who's creating and developing parts for airplanes in war time, when it comes to his attention that some of these parts were faulty.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020