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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
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention, make them laugh, make them like you. But what makes being a barrister less satisfying than being a writer is, finally, that it's about what someone else wants you to say.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
- Good Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is the wrong response to technological unemployment. Focusing on economic flexibility and adaptability - with special attention to eliminating the barriers we've accidentally created to the mobility of the working classes - is the right response to technological disruption.
- Pay
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- Nov 07, 2020