Attention Quotes
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
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You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.
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Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.
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Kim was the one who taught us how to use Twitter and how to engage and really capture the attention of followers and the fans.
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By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.
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I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.
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Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.
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Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
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I have some friends who love to perform and wish they were getting the attention I am getting. But that doesn't stop them from supporting me.
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The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
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I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
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You get all the girls, ... Maybe I can get all the attention.
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The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.
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It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.
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My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
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When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
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Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.
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My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.
