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• My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Science, Men, Ideas

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• Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Yoga, Giving, Focus

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• He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate." "With chair-throwing." "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Fighting, Hands

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• She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Mind, Titles

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• Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.

  Alice Hoffman

  Prayer, Heart, Warrior

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

  Gabrielle Zevin

  People, Scare, Whispering

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Focus, Maps, Too Much

  Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

  Rachel Cohn

  Guy, Doe, Too Much

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.43, Egmont UK

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• Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Blessed, Eye

  "More Than a Savior: When Jesus Calls You Friend". Book by Robert Crosby, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention." "Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Waiting, Want, Speak

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.70, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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• Expert advice on improving ur relationship - 4A's - attention,appreciation, affection & attraction.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Appreciation, Advice, Experts

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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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• How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

  Richelle Mead

  People, Feelings, Details

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.89, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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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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• They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Writing, Care, Evening

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• No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.

  Paul Goodman

  Compassion, Anxiety, Feelings

  Paul Goodman (1977). “Nature Heals”

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