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• If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.

  Abbi Glines

  Arms, Distraction, Given

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.12, Abbi Glines

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• If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.

  Pete Wentz

  World, Littles, Ifs

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• They're not so bad. They just need some attention. ...Like pets. Or my brother.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Pet, Needs

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• Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Pay, Too Much, Offers

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "Is It Possible to Write a Poem", Chapter: "Benefactors", p. 110), June 13, 2012.

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• It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

  E. B. White

  Animal, Charlotte's Web, Remarks

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• The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

  John Green

  Real, Hero, Vaccines

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

  Linda Hogan

  Patience, Nature, Garden

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• You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

  Jeannette Walls

  College, People, Degrees

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Trying, Bash

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• I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Wisdom, Greatness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

  Tammara Webber

  Path, I've Changed, Made

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• ... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Space, People, Together

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• Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.

  Adam Selzer

  Song, Sorry, People

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• It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days. As a result, a great deal escapes us and we no longer understand our own actions. So it remains important and salutary to speak not only of the rational and easily understood, but also of enigmatic things: the irrational and the ambiguous. To speak both privately and publicly.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Dream, Giving, Important

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• Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Tasks, Levels, Revolutionary

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, V. I. Lenin (1927). “Collected works of V. I. Lenin”

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• There are moments in my life when I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, doing exactly what I’m supposed to do. I pay attention to them. They’re my cosmic landmarks, letting me know I’m on the right path. Now that I’m older and can look back and see where I missed a turn here and there, and know the price I paid for those oversights, I try to look sharper at the present.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Trying, Here And There, Looks

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.742, Dell

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• No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Sight, Self

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• How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary. See yourself in your opponents. They will bring you to understand the Game. To accept the fact that the Game is about managed fear. That its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.

  David Foster Wallace

  Running, Mirrors, Games

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Needs, Cost

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• God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lines, Leisure, Infinite

  BBC Radio Talk: "Beyond Personality -- Mere Men", Broadcast 21 March 1944, BBC Home Service Radio

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• Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.

  Ally Carter

  Morning, Reading, Gun

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• Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

  Bob Goff

  Adventure, Soul, Together

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, People, Pay

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