- 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
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was January 1983 when we launched 'Frontline' on PBS with 'An Unauthorized History of the NFL.' The program was anchored by Jessica Savitch. We wanted to get attention, and we got it.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, my parents noticed an aptitude for being a show-off. I loved attention. I was always saying, 'Watch me do this, watch me do that,' which I now realize with my own kids is a phase that most kids go through.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020