- 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
- Nightmares
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'American Born Chinese' started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn't really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut.
- Grabbing
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020