- 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
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
- Doses
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really not good with money, and I don't pay attention.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020