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• Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.

  David Bohm

  Way, Doe, Attention

  "On Dialogue". Book by David Bohm, 1990.

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• How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Quality, Pay

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• ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

  Larry King

  Media, Years, People

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• We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

  Matthew Fox

  Pain, Laughter, Silly

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• The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

  Marc Edwards

  Attention, Half, Vote

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• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Baseball, Winning, Thinking

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• Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

  Jim Evans

  Reading, Games, Details

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• You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Encouragement, Real

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• Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, Mean, Doe

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• Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.

  Tim Ryan

  Stress, Past, Space

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

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• [Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.

  James Redfield

  Meaningful, Dream, Opportunity

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• Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not constructive, it can be very funny, in which case it's fine to pay attention to it if you're going to laugh about it. But if it's going to get you angry then it's a pretty pointless waste of energy, so I try and be selective about what I take an interest in about myself.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Laughing, Trying, Attention

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a hit, and nobody was paying attention to what I was doing, and it was a free type of creative process. So, one way to reset myself is to go back to that kind of moviemaking.

  Takashi Miike

  Creative, Attention, Way

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• There's always something new with sex. We lived in a world without Viagra, now we live in a world with Viagra. We lived in a world without blowjobs and anilingus in the Oval Office, and then it happens and you get to write about it. We live in a world where now the government is screwing with contraception and holding back vaccines that could save 4,000 women's lives a year, and you get to write about that. It's not as much fun as anilingus in the Oval Office, but what are you going to do? If you pay attention, there's always something new, and it's always really invigorating.

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Fun, Writing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

  Andrew Bird

  Numbers, Attention, Pay

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Everything has such order and everyone is so focused on doing what they're doing that no one ever pays attention to you spinning and dancing around supermarkets. It's something you find in places like supermarkets and airports, where everything is really ordered. There's something about those places that makes you feel really anonymous.

  Florence Welch

  Airports, Order, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Attention, May

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2005.

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• I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Art, Kids, Tired

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

  Marge Piercy

  Lying, People, Choices

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

  Larry Wall

  Running, Interesting, Musician

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Attention, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Self, Hands, Giving

  "On Grief and Reason: Essays". Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1995.

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• If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

  David Allen

  Giving, Attention, Pay

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• It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

  Matthew Crawford

  Ideas, Trying, Attention

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• The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hair, Attention, Pay

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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