Best Paying Attention Thoughts
279 Paying Attention quotes by 233 unique authors
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
— J C Watts
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is…
— Susan Sontag
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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying…
— Tom Robbins
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The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not…
— Christopher Paolini
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No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you…
— Thomas Friedman
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I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with…
— Yann Martel
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Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
— Charlie Huston
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At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world…
— Thomas Friedman
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There is ecstasy in paying attention.
— Anne Lamott
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
— Julia Cameron
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James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you…
— Julia Quinn
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Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went…
— Alice Sebold
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Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay…
— Thom Yorke
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Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
— Michael Chabon
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you have not been / paying attention
— Thom Yorke
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems…
— Charles de Lint
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You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
— Robin Williams
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You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.
— Cassandra Clare
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You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
— Suzanne Collins
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I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to take communion, I…
— Richelle Mead
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Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention,
— Eileen Wilks
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