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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
- Nasty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sarah Paulson is the most prepared and professional actor I've had the privilege of working with. I learned so much about preparation and attention to detail and speaking up when something is not right.
- El Salvador
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In devoting more time and attention to fewer commitments, we can have a bigger impact on the things that matter most.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of TV exposure we have had and the attention women's football has got has been brilliant.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.
- Nov 07, 2020
It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're lucky we live in Canada. If we were living in the United States I'm sure it would be different - all the media attention that we would get in the private part of our lives.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020