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• I'm gonna dress up as an iPhone so my husband pays attention to me.

  Nicole Richie

  Husband, Iphone, Dresses

  Twitter post from May 26, 2012

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• Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

  Michael J. Fox

  Book, Attention, Pay

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• I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

  Shawn Johnson

  Attention, Pay, Gymnast

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• You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

  Wallace Stegner

  Attention, Pay, Emotion

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

  John McCain

  Attention, Pay, Problem

  "A Crumbling America" by Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2010.

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• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Stupid, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Art is about paying attention.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, Attention, Art Is

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• To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

  W. H. Auden

  God, Prayer, Children

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• I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, America, People

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.813, Best Books on

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• My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Attention, Might

  Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

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• If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

  Annie Proulx

  Smart, Independent, Years

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• When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

  Quentin Bryce

  Mother, Women, Fall

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• The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, People, Attention

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• The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Stars, Compassion

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

  David Foster Wallace

  College, Attention, Stuff

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• When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fire, Judging

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• Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

  Colin Neenan

  Life, Beauty, Vision

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• Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  People, Vision, Attention

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• Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Attention, Pay

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• Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep rally of temptations. And your mind may put some selfish spin on the ball, rationalizing that it's okay to veer away from the ethical route. When we run into conflicts between ethical "shoulds" and our selfish "wants," we all argure out ways to con our conscience. But take pains to listen, because it has your best interests at heart.

  Price Pritchett

  Running, Pain, Selfish

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• Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

  Susan M Dodd

  Inspirational, Luck, Mindfulness

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• It's not so much a case of having to pay attention to the news of the world as it is a case of knowing when to change our filters so that the important stuff comes in.

  Bill Welter

  Thinking, Knowing, Important

  Bill Welter, Jean Egmon (2005). “The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life?

  Colin Beavan

  Live Your Life, Attention, Moments

  Colin Beavan (2009). “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process”, p.45, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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