My Attention Quotes

155 quotes by 142 authors

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia Butler
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
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
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words. — Wally Lamb
...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
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
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence
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
Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot. — Hugh Laurie
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
I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you donâ€™t come out with a great presentation, youâ€™re dead. Thatâ€™s a big red flag, — Robert Herjavec
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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