Quotes with short-attention

Quotes 401 till 420 of 510.

  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Aaron Klug The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Griffith Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Brit Marling Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • James Baldwin There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Butch Trucks There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Samuel Beckett There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bob Moses There is a weariness... from constant attention to the things you are doing, the struggle of good against evil.
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  • S. Maxwell Coder There is no doubt that God has often brought a certain verse to the attention of one of His children in an unusual and almost miraculous manner, for a special need, but the Word was never intended to be consulted in a superstitious manner.
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  • Theodore Harold White There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • Lord George Byron There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Aldous Huxley There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Burt Rutan There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Mark Twain There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Hayes There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
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  • Buzz Aldrin There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • William Zinsser There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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