fix attention

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In defining a word we seek some class to which to refer it, that we may identify it, and fix attention upon that peculiarity by which we can distinguish it from all other things.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

I was too ill-dressed, and my manner was too simple, to attract or fix attention.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various

In skilled movement, or skilled action of any sort, the best rule is to fix attention on the end-result or, if the process is long, on the result that immediately needs to be accomplished.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

But he could not fix attention on it.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

First let us fix attention on the purely mathematical question.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North