Theodore Isaac Rubin

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.

American Psychologist

Alan Ball

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

American Director

Mark Feuerstein

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

American Actor

Elizabeth Diller

We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we're less attuned to the nuances of the public.

Polish Architect

Stan Van Gundy

I was raised in a home where we grew up where we discussed issues. I've always been really politically aware. My wife and four kids are very aware. They make me more attuned to a lot of things I would not think about. Especially women's issues.

American Coach

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Hungarian Scientist

Henry Selick

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

David Rose

Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.

American Musician

Karyn Kusama

What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I'm really attuned to how frightening this world is that we live in.

Henry Reed

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

The verb 'attuned' often needs context to clarify what is being adapted to what.

Requires Context

'Attuned' implies a gradual process, not an instantaneous one.

Change Over Time

'Attuned' suggests someone actively adjusts something to match or fit another thing.

Active Involvement

As an adjective, 'attuned' often refers to emotional and social awareness.

Emotional Awareness

'Attuned' can imply a deep understanding of complex or nuanced situations.

Subtle Nuances

Being 'attuned' to something often requires careful observation and listening.

Requires Observation

The adjective 'attuned' emphasizes a harmonious or natural connection with something.

Harmonious Connection

When 'attuned' involves personal beliefs, it means aligning with one's inner values or philosophy.

Personal Alignment

'Attuned' doesn't necessarily mean something is positive; it indicates alignment, whether good or bad.

Not Always Positive

 and an adjacent area called the lateral occipital complex, that is especially attuned to processing objects. In addition, attractive faces activate parts of our reward and pleasure centers in the front and deep in the brain, and these include areas that have complicated names,

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 kind of attached because they're kind of funny in the way they act and how they have like different personalities but you just fall in love with like the little things they do and it's just super cool the more and more i'm out here it feels like the more i get attuned with the

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 For example, did your grandmother do manual labor, and it made you really worry that she didn't get access to high quality healthcare? Did your brother have to overcome his dyslexia, and you helped him with his reading? And so, you became really attuned to education policy.

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 that we know can help prevent them, and we've used it for thousands of years. And what I find so fascinating about these technologies is how complex they are and how attuned they are to nature. And then, how resilient we could all become by learning from them.

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 saliva samples showed an increase in testosterone in those who had smelled a shirt worn by an ovulating woman. Such a testosterone boost may give a man the nudge to pursue a woman he might not have otherwise noticed. A woman's nose is particularly attuned

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 Because they're just as important, they help us relate to one another and help me understand these people as human beings just like you and me. And so, I think that, you know, we've become attuned to thinking that, you know, the positive, the good,

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 During his two-year imprisonment, he protested the segregated facilities from within. Wherever Rustin went, he organized and advocated, and was constantly attuned to the methods, groups, and people who could help further messages of equality.

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 Bluebottle butterflies have at least 15 types of photoreceptors. Seven of them are attuned to distinct blues and greens, which researchers think might help them track each other during high-speed chases.

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 So how does this play out in the real world? Well, it means that what happens between people really counts, because in groups that are highly attuned and sensitive to each other, ideas can flow and grow.

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 attuned to the necessity, through policy, through procedures, to get more science in the courtroom, and I think one large step toward that is more requirements, with all due respect to the law schools,