- Me
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pay attention when people get manicures and pedicures. I've always noticed it as a guy. When my wife goes to get her nails done, I'm always very aware of it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020