Best Paying Attention Wisdom
279 Paying Attention quotes by 233 unique authors
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He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would…
— Nicholas Sparks
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If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some…
— Laini Taylor
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I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.
— Tucker Max
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life…
— Yann Martel
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Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike.
— Lisa Kleypas
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That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone…
— Suzanne Collins
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Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as…
— Cassandra Clare
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
— John Green
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox…
— John Green
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I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to…
— Jojo Moyes
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Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at…
— Adam Selzer
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it…
— Dean Koontz
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Speaking of Sonya...I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said." "Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?" "Don't start,Sage," he warned.(p 211)
— Richelle Mead
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I figure if there is a God, he or she isn’t paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.
— Tamora Pierce
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Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little…
— Anne Lamott
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We shouldn’t,” protested Isabelle. “The Clave has a plan.” “The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple,” said Jace. Alec blinked up at them.…
— Cassandra Clare
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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.…
— Brené Brown
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Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
— Joshua Foer
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