- Landscape
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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
- Pay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an introverted extrovert. My job sets me apart, but I'm not hammy and don't need attention.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.
- Elicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020