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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
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that.
- Pay Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.
- Ballistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.
- Clear Message
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, Jay Z definitely got my attention. I thought it was pretty cool that he wanted me on the team.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
- Nov 07, 2020