Attention Quotes
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Attention is the material I work with.
Tino Sehgal
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Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.
Ben Yagoda
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The first year was kind of hard for me. There was just too much attention, too much going on, and I really just wanted to focus on basketball.
Kristaps Porzingis
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Attention, people talking about me: I Am. Right. Here.
Carrie Jones
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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.
Dalai Lama
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As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.
Richard Louv
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I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
John Anthony Frusciante
Ataxia
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Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.
Walter Mischel
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I'm a big fan of rehearsal. I'm famous for pulling the cast together, not so much to formally rehearse, but just to run the lines. My theory of acting is that it takes all your attention just to stay in the moment, and keep your attention on the other person, and get him to do what you want him to do.
William H. Macy
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It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.
Barack Obama
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If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
W. S. Gilbert
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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.
Charles Dickens
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The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
William James
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I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.
Charles Dickens
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My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'
Chrissie Fit
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
Susan Sontag
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History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
Adora Svitak
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
Paul Newman
