- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Close Attention Quotes
On the discipline of really watching before you judge.
These close attention quotes describe the craft of careful noticing, from a critic studying a text to two people reading each other's cues in a group. Attention here is treated as a skill, not something Attention pays itself.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.
- 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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP 'War on Women.'
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a fighter, I pay very close attention to the amount of marketing that goes into and around my fights, and I can tell you that you'd be hard pressed to find much that has been done to promote me outside of 'TUF 24,' which was minimal in comparison to other fights, fighters, and shows.
- Beam
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn't be that big of a deal; the packaging, the title, and the harmonies, I think, are arguably as important as the lead vocals.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020