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• Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Attention, Body, Demand

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention.

  Kasey Chambers

  Pissed Off, Attention, World

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• If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap

  Dean Koontz

  Fall, Writing, Yelling

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• if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

  Joan Rivers

  Thinking, Attention, Life Is

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• The Four Rules of Life:
  1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Upset, Attention, Four

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• The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

  Ellen Goodman

  Time, Believe, Loss

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

  Mooji

  Self, Attention, Pay

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• Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Successful, Opportunity, Two

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• There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Nice, Cells, Practice

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• Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.

  David Titley

  Jobs, People, Trying

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Play, Watches

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• I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

  Kirko Bangz

  Real, Views, Numbers

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

  Jeff Dunham

  Girl, Sports, Kids

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

  Christopher Ricks

  Art, Attention, Great Work

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• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  Frederick Buechner

  Meaningful, Dream, Religious

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• When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

  Michael Ovitz

  Jobs, Laid Back, Details

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• When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

  Jim Hightower

  Texas, America, Attention

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• I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

  Warren Zevon

  Mean, Hollies, Berries

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• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Data, Eggs

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• We become what we pay attention to.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Attention, Pay

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• I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

  Azar Nafisi

  America, People, Soul

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• We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Running, Long, Unhappy

  Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Shinoda Bolen M. D. (2011). “Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting!

  Ronnie Coleman

  Bodybuilding, Men, Attention

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• Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Unique, Media, Native Language

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Morning, Passion, Mean

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.3, Harper Collins

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