- Know
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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
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really underestimated how many people are paying attention to 'Jeopardy' and what's out there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting so much attention all at once, with so many people who want something from you or want to talk to you... for someone who is overly sensitive to other people's needs, that can be difficult.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.
- Nov 07, 2020