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• Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Work, Hands

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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• Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, President, United States

  "David Giffey: If Molly Ivins could comment on the election". Interview With David Giffey, host.madison.com. February 25, 2016.

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• It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

  Pope John XXIII

  Generosity, Catholic, Church

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• Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

  Bob Newhart

  Vacation, Comedian, Comedy

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

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• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  Robert Peel

  Giving, Community, Police

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice". Book by Larry Siegel (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• I don't pay attention to the ratings.

  Martha Plimpton

  Pay, Pay Attention, Rating

  "'Raising Hope's' Martha Plimpton on Her Emmy Nomination, 'I Was Doubly Surprised'". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

  Alice Walker

  Life, Dance, Flower

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Winning, Thinking

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• ...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.

  Marlo Morgan

  Wind, Wings, Endurance

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• That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Nice, Writing, Want

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

  Dustin Diamond

  Writing, Bass, Pay

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• Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

  Jeremy London

  Brother, Growing Up, Begging

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• Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

  Plato

  Life, Plato, Philosophical

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• All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

  Jennifer Wyatt

  Superstar, Mass, Likeable

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• There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay no attention to the sounds of the world. They are just noises, and even when added up all together they have no value, make no sense. Strain to hear the song of angels. Listen to the melody within your soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Song, Angel, Soul

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 06, 2014

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• Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1999.

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• When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Commitment, Love Relationship, Energy

  Barbara De Angelis (1993). “Are You the One for Me?: Knowing Who's Right and Avoiding Who's Wrong”, Dell Publishing Company

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• I never knew any man cured of inattention.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Inattention

  Jonathan Swift (1751). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.205

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• If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Space, Looks

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Honesty, Writing, Simple

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• I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

  Janis Karpinski

  Soldier, Care, Pay

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• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

  Richard Cecil

  Beauty, Beautiful, Years

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• My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

  Pierre Loti

  Book, Ink, Tasks

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• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Technology, Toys

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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