Quotes with short-attention

Quotes 101 till 120 of 510.

  • Andy Warhol Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Burton Richter During my years at the synchrotron laboratory, I had become interested in the theory of quantum electrodynamics and had decided that what I would most like to do after completing my dissertation work was to probe the short-distance behavior of the electromagnetic interaction.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Louise Erdrich Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Virgil Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Campbell Brown Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Bryson England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Simone Weil Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bobby Short Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
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  • Cardinal de Retz Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Richard Cecil Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Ben Elliot Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Anne Dudley Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
    That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
    Against Hope.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Cao Yu For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
    Cao Yu
     
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Milton For solitude sometimes is best society,
    And short retirement urges sweet return.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Laura Swenson For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
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