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• The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Self, Secret, Attention

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• One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

  Edward T. Hall

  Details Of Life, Culture, Attention

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• Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It's all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That's what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.

  Rick Danko

  Dream, Opportunity, Land

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• The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

  Richard Louv

  Focus, Needs, Attention

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.19, Algonquin Books

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• There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, Creative, Balance

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.24, Algonquin Books

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• No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

  Dennis McKenna

  Religious, Courage, Taken

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• Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Odds, Play

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• You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span.

  J Dilla

  Men, Attention, Pay

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• There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

  Antonya Nelson

  Going Away, Attention, Pay

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• Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.

  Tim McIlrath

  Real, Revolution, Attention

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• People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

  Sydney Schanberg

  New York, Issues, People

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• We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.

  Dean Ornish

  Teacher, Voice, Intuition

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2010). “Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs orSurgery”, p.110, Ivy Books

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• By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

  Andy Grove

  Feet, Attention, Internet

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• Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

  Duncan Ferguson

  Hurt, Men, Hiking

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• (I've learned) how important it is to really evaluate your own life...to pay attention to what's going on in your own head, and to know that this is (your) life...and make conscious decisions about how you want to live it.

  Laura Evans

  Cancer, Decision, Important

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• Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Magic Moments

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

  Bob Hayes

  Pain, Sleep, Heart

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• If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Space, Looks

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Years, Too Late, Attention

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• Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

  Angeles Arrien

  Life, Truth, Attention

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• Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Song, Silence, Musical

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• I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

  Steven Solomon

  Hate, Work, Soul

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• Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

  C. Douglas Dillon

  Mind, Attention, Body

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• Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Worry, Creative, Attention

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.57, Penguin

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• A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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