- 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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the staff and crew on the set as my equals. When I make a mistake, they know they can call my attention or even tell me what to do.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the French, Koreans aim for a subtle and effortless look - while actually paying a lot of attention to the details.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020