My Attention Quotes
155 quotes by 142 authors
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
— Octavia Butler
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female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
— Wally Lamb
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...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then…
— Marlo Morgan
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.
— Hugh Laurie
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I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what…
— Tom Cruise
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I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don’t come out with a great presentation, you’re dead. That’s a big red flag,
— Robert Herjavec
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The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area,…
— David Nabarro
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I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I…
— Dara Wier
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Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system…
— Kent Beck
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I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts…
— Dawna Markova
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I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance…
— Alicia Sacramone
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My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface stuff and the…
— Zoe Saldana
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I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.
— Michelle Branch
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The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I…
— Robert Musil
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When all my endeavor is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavor is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my…
— Nicholas of Cusa
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