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• A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.

  Norm MacDonald

  Time, Men, Giving

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• One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Eating Good

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• No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.

  Joseph Paxton

  Nature, Science, Animal

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.1

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• The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Marriage, Rose

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• You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

  Russell Simmons

  Business, People, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2017

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• Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Dancing, Toes

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• Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Education, Wise, Opportunity

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• Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Significant Things, House

  Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5

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• He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Giving, Meals

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• It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Graduation, Sweet, Past

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• It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Giving, Enjoy Life

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• If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hilarious, Stars, Kids

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.48, Three Rivers Press

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• If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

  Simone Weil

  Life, War, Attention And Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

  Kevin Heath

  Kids, Parenting, Love Is

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• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Evil, Might

  "The Rambler".

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• To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Religion, Fixed

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Atheist, Giving, Religion

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• Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

  Charles Kettering

  Crazy, Work, Science

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• The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

  Dorian Yates

  Strength, Mistake, Motivational Workout

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• Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Business, Simple

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• One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

  Rick Dees

  Dance, Reality, Roles

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• We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Giving, Wonderful

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• That which holds our attention determines our action.

  Prince William

  Motivation, Vision, Our Actions

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

  Jennifer Lee

  Graduation, Thinking, Self

  "Super Inspiring Graduation Advice From Frozen Director, Jennifer Lee" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2014.

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