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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."

"She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect."

"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."

"This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations."

"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."

"All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention."
Explore more quotes by Rudolph A. Marcus


"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."


"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."


"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."


"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."


"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."


"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."


"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
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