Attention Quotes - Page 10

• Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Teaching, Character

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• Alexia blinked stupidly at the Beta from around the earl’s upper arm. Her heart was doing crazy things, and she still could not locate her kneecaps. She took a deep breath and put some serious attention into tracking them down.

  Gail Carriger

  Crazy, Heart, Arms

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• A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.

  Matt Dunn

  Needs, Habit, Constant

  Matt Dunn (2008). “The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell my why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb.

  Chelsea Handler

  Children, Kids, Smell

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• You can drive.” When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.

  Nalini Singh

  Eyebrows, Car, Wheels

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.733, Penguin

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• There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain, and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse that they seek. Sometimes, it is better to keep your eyes on the gutter for the fear that, by looking up, you might catch a glimpse of them, black shapes against the sun, and be blinded forever.

  John Connolly

  Pain, Eye, People

  John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• ...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

  James Dashner

  Thinking, Would Be, Littles

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.102, Delacorte Press

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• Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

  Adam Smith

  Ambition, Independent, Circles

  Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

  Jandy Nelson

  Crazy, Thinking, Fog

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.54, Penguin

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• Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Stars, Children

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• Slow people are just paying close attention.

  Nancy Farmer

  People

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

  Jason Mraz

  Weekend, Men, Negativity

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• Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

  Yann Martel

  Dream, Hands, Survival

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

  Mary Oliver

  Weed, Voice, Blue

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Body, Newton

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• The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Alchemist

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 30, 2011

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• Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby. "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.

  James Dashner

  Giving, Crowds, Newts

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.302, Delacorte Press

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• Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

  Maureen Johnson

  Pay, Complicated, Walks

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.165, Penguin

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• Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Details, Body

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.905, Delphi Classics

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• A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Girl, Hair, Long

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• Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.

  Libba Bray

  Grateful, People, Missing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Wise, Meditation, Mindfulness

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.78, Workman Publishing

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• People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

  A.M. Homes

  People, Giving, Want

  A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books

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• I think he likes you" Miranda Whispered. Realizing she and Derek had drawn attention, she glanced away. "He's probably just curious about me like everyone else" she whispered back. "Nope. He's hot for you" Della said, reminding Kylie of the supernatural hearing of some of the campers. "When he was sitting by you at lunch, he oozed so much testosterone that it was hard to breathe. He wants your body" Della teased. "Well, he's not getting it" Kylie said.

  C.C. Hunter

  Thinking, Lunch, Hot

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Born at Midnight”, p.80, St. Martin's Griffin

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