- 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
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deepfakes - seemingly authentic video or audio recordings that can spread like wildfire online - are likely to send American politics into a tailspin, and Washington isn't paying nearly enough attention to the very real danger that's right around the corner.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.
- Bodily
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- Nov 07, 2020