Paying Attention Quotes

279 quotes by 240 authors

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. — Berkeley Breathed
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its… — Paulo Coelho
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to. — George Carlin
You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the… — Paul Newman
A lot of what acting is is paying attention. — Robert Redford
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. — Diane Sawyer
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. — Stephen Levine
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. — BrenÃ© Brown
I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it… — Paulo Coelho
I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was. — Tom Brady
I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a… — Barack Obama
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… — Ruhollah Khomeini
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… — Anne Lamott
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
The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention — Ruth Messinger
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… — Albert Einstein
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… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and… — Bill Nye
I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys… — Katrina Kenison
Art is about paying attention. — Laurie Anderson

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