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279 Paying Attention quotes by 233 unique authors
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We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for…
— John Cage
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The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice…
— Gillian Welch
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I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.
— Greg Maddux
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For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when…
— Robert Fulghum
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically,…
— Nathalie Sarraute
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We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for…
— David Agus
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Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.
— Howie Carr
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I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back…
— John Corbett
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How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to…
— Joshua Foer
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My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept…
— Antoine Fuqua
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If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen…
— Ray Dalio
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When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his…
— Patricia Reilly Giff
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Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old…
— Merle Haggard
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I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
— Cobi Jones
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
— Matthew Perry
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The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated…
— Elizabeth Bear
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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what…
— Clive Thompson
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AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of…
— Rico Love
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I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No.…
— Sue Thoele
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Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but…
— Frederick Lenz
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I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
— Peter Matthiessen
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Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
— Mark Strand
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The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.
— Thomas Jones
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Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more…
— Ann Shulgin
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