- Living
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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
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very lucky 'Arrested Development' was so successful because I never really got too much attention, and I was able to evolve instead of only being seen as one character.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thirteen, and I did a movie that got attention, and I got attention, and I didn't like it - it made me uncomfortable - so I just quit. And then I was trying to figure out what to do and was worthless at everything, so I was like, 'All right, I'll try acting again.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, a little guy, I always played videogames, NHL, and always paid attention to the photo on the box. I always wanted to have my photo there.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't pay attention to me, I'm going to make you pay attention to me. I've always been that way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have good form, bad form, get criticised, get bigged up. You go through spells of trying to find out how much to listen to, what not to pay too much attention to.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020