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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
- Nov 07, 2020
My attention span is very short.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020