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"You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it."
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"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
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"The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done."
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"Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up."
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"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."
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"The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most."
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"You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place."
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"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
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"Everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while."
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"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."
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"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."
Trying
"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
Aspiration
"Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life."
Health
"This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken."
Time
"I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology."
Work
"I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science."
Science
"This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal."
Thought
"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem."
Experience
"I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me."
Time
"My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career."
Career
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