Attention Quotes - Page 9

• Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Wish, Want

  "The Secret". Book by Rhonda Byrne, September 4, 2008.

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• I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Pay, Bears, Ridiculous

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• Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.

  Trent Shelton

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

  Mary Oliver

  Work, Positivity, Pay

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course and that is what gets all the attention, there's two countries in the world right now that actually have a Federal mandate to enact penal law according to the Sharia, that's Saudi Arabia, and Iran.

  Mark Durie

  Country, Iran, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• People dont pay attention until they have to

  Meredith Whitney

  People, Pay, Pay Attention

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• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Memories, Giving

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• We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

  William Martin

  Meditation, Trying, Wake Up

  William Martin (2009). “A Path and a Practice: Using Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as a Guide to an Awakened Spiritual Life”, p.21, Da Capo Press

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• Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.

  Arielle Ford

  Quality, Sun, Grows

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• The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

  Meg Rosoff

  Average, Long, Trying

  "Selling yourself as a writer" by Meg Rosoff, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

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• Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Demand, Care

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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• Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Girl, Flirting, Player

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

  Laini Taylor

  Skeletons, Self, Sky

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.40, Scholastic Inc.

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• I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

  Jeannette Walls

  Sunrise, Care, Enjoy

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Differences, Misery, Depends

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• He’d spent his life being a perfect gentleman. He’d never been a flirt. He’d never been a rogue. He hated being the center of attention, but by God, he wanted to be the center of her attention. He wanted to do the wrong thing, the bad thing. He wanted to pull her into his arms and carry her to her bed. He wanted to peel every last inch of her clothing from her body, and then he wanted to worship her. He wanted to show her all the things he wasn’t sure he knew how to say.

  Julia Quinn

  Flirting, Perfect, Gentleman

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• Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

  Connie Brockway

  Pet, Too Much, Spoil

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• I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

  Tucker Max

  Hate, Two, Stupidity

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.132, Citadel

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• Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mean, Exercise, Thinking

  "This Is Water". David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon College, www.youtube.com. May 21, 2005.

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• David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them.

  John Connolly

  Mother, Dog, Cat

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• When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

  James Gleick

  Information, Consciousness, Expensive

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• Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Patience, Treasure, Pay

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• I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stargirl, Needed, My Own

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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