- Game
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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
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I like the attention... well, I mean, I don't mind it. Sometimes it can be a lot. I deal with it, though.
- Elite
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's part of being an elite player, you get attention.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a person who wants to be the centre of attention or anything like that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking about the minutiae.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020