- Just
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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
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.
- High Schools
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just want to make sure the best candidates get the attention they deserve.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an official slow-roasted, honey-baked ham. Ever since I was a kid, my thing is that I love attention. All my report cards are like, 'He would be wonderful, but he just can't stop being a clown in class.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of Africa's development to the entire world should be self-evident. And yet, despite the high stakes, Europe - and the international community more broadly - have not devoted the attention and resources that the issue merits.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020