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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
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media attention - the negative, in particular - it makes you a different person.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
- Nov 07, 2020
You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my brothers and I were young, my mom, a Democrat, and my dad, a Republican, used to lead freewheeling discussions at our dinner table. The only rule was paying attention when others were talking, and no interrupting.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020