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• ... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Gratitude, Truth

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.80, Souvenir Press

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• Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

  George McGovern

  Country, Brother, Responsibility

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• It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call to all of us to pay attention to our ocean.

  Ted Danson

  Ocean, Kids, Commitment

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• If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

  Jennifer Lee

  Graduation, Thinking, Self

  "Super Inspiring Graduation Advice From Frozen Director, Jennifer Lee" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2014.

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• I know how you feel. I’ve been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major who said I had attention issues. Or at least that’s what I think he said. I wasn’t really paying attention. Anyway, where was I?

  Darynda Jones

  Psych, Thinking, Issues

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.107, Macmillan

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• No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay attention. You take everything in. I like that about you—I like that better.” Cath closed her eyes and felt tears catch on her cheeks. “I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.” He kissed her mouth. “Look at me.” She did. “I choose you over everyone.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Glasses, Snow

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.668, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Mean, Knowing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

  Humberto Maturana

  Inspirational, Motivational, Effort

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• The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Real, Mistake

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin

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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Weed, Moving, Taken

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• These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not correct. This issue, which is perhaps being discussed everywhere, regarding paying attention to nation and nationality is nonsense in Islam and is against Islam. One of the things that the designers of Imperialism and their agents have promoted is the idea of nation and nationality.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Iran, Ideas, Issues

  Mehregan Magazine, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2 (p. 16), 2003.

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• Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.88, Penguin

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• There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Essence, Holiness

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.100, Anchor

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• Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Church

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• Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Sweet, Giving Up

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• Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

  Nanci Griffith

  Song, Mean, Hands

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• The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

  Ruth Messinger

  Differences, Listening, Hearing

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• When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

  Albert Einstein

  Attention, Young, Wanted

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• There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Long, Attention

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.

  Boris Gelfand

  Real, Believe, Tv Shows

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• It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Roles, Attention, Fit

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Explains Why He’s A Feminist". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2014.

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• When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

  Mr. T

  Growing Up, Attention, Pay

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

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• A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Wind, Heaven

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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, Attention, Bass

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• People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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