Pay Attention Quotes - Page 35

• You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Depressing, Lying, Party

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Interview with Debbie McQuoid, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• To be honest with you, I'm not sure what a pop tune is. I'm sure if I hear it on the radio, I'd say that's pop or this or that. But, really, what I pay attention to the most is just music that moves me. It's all at least a root-type music instead of a formula.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Moving, Roots, Radio

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• Look at me as an example. I don't have the best education or the best looks. Where I'm from in Nigeria is not entertainment driven, it's the northern part of Nigeria and over there they hardly pay attention to entertainment. I came out of that place to attain this level of success. I always say if I can get here with all of these imperfections then no one has the excuse to fail in life.

  Ice Prince

  Imperfection, Example, Looks

  Source: www.mobo.com

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• You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• To develop intuition, one of the things you can do is pay attention to what you eat. Eat as clean a diet as you can. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables without preservatives, without alcohol, caffeine, dyes, and organically grown if possible. But do what is comfortable for your. Don't try to shift into a lifestyle that doesn't fit, but be aware that the lighter you eat the lighter you will feel.

  Gary Zukav

  Vegetables, Alcohol, Intuition

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

  Antisthenes

  Business, Powerful, Mistake

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 12)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Regret, Independent, Careers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Important, Attention

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Together, World

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

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• Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teacher, Inspiration, Knowing

  Deepak Chopra (1993). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Harmony

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• Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

  Paulo Coelho

  Patience, Important, Attention

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• Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

  A. A. Milne

  Attention, Might, Pay

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• Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

  Mary Karr

  Book, Healthy, Age

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• When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, People, Attention

  "Brené Brown: 'People are sick of being afraid all the time'". Interview with John-Paul Flintoff, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.

  Steve Jobs

  Country, School, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: America's Schools Are Dying". Interview With Daniel Morrow, www.forbes.com. October 24, 2011.

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• Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

  Al Stewart

  Country, Rap, Rocks

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• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  Ian Frazier

  Book, Opportunity, Names

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• I think its nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work youve done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.

  Joan Smalls

  Nice, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

  Paul Bloom

  Powerful, Taught Us, Pay

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• Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various countries. What honest people are saying seems to be incomprehensible: that we should keep to the elementary moral level of the gospels. We should pay attention to our own crimes and stop committing them. This would be true even if we were killing one person, OK? And it's even more true when we're killing millions of people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Wings, People

  "Noam Chomsky On the Middle East and the US War on Terrorism". "Hot Type" with Evan Solomon, dissidentvoice.org. April 16, 2002.

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• People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

  Fred Funk

  Hate, Golf, Thinking

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• If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.

  Joe Torre

  Winning, Guy, Attention

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• My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Doctors, Add, Attention

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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  Teaching, School, College

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• Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

  Kate Baldwin

  Directors, Attention, Pay

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