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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
- Nov 07, 2020
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any actor that's like, 'I hate the fact that I'm getting all of this attention,' is a liar. Especially when it's from the opposite sex.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been sequencing all of my albums, from any Gang Starr stuff to Jeru to Group Home, all of it. I pay a lot of attention to that and really always have. I've even helped sequence friend's projects.
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- Nov 07, 2020