Attention Quotes
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It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
Paul Wolfowitz
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The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
Marshall McLuhan
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You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
Paul Theroux
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If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.
Jason Mraz
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My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
Gabrielle Hamilton
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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
Oprah Winfrey
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Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.
Gaston Bachelard
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I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.
Tyronn Lue
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It's always good to go from a heavy song to a softer one. It helps having the attention of the audience for the whole show - three hours of the same songs for the whole show is boring.
Stéphane Paut
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I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular...
Mariah Carey
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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.
Jarvis Cocker
Pulp
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We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
Allen Weinstein
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I don't pay attention to the ratings.
Martha Plimpton
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The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
Edmund White
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I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?
Uta Barth
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I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.
Cheri Huber
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But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
Jerry Della Femina
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If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.
Eduard Suess
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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
George Gallup
