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Attention Quotes

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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
Henri Nouwen

Be aware of the individuals that Divine Providence places in your life if you desire to comprehend what God has planned for you.
Authors on Attention Quotes: Frederick Lenz Deepak Chopra Eckhart Tolle Mary Oliver Jon Kabat-Zinn Paulo Coelho Noam Chomsky Seth Godin William James Cassandra Clare David Foster Wallace Wes Fesler Hillary Clinton Suzanne Collins Daniel Goleman Jane Austen Wayne Dyer Simone Weil Esther Hicks Samuel Johnson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dan Millman Susan Sontag Max Lucado Robert Greene Brian Eno Keith Henson Jack Kornfield Frank Herbert Barack Obama C. S. Lewis Anne Lamott Al Gore
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A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
Immortal Technique

An alluring visage can seize my regard but only an intelligent soul can maintain it.
3.
Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.
Khaled Hosseini

Gazes gravitated towards him like sunflowers tracking the light.
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
Wendell Berry

"Individuals are provided for by the food sector, which disregards wellness, and are tended to by the medical system, which overlooks sustenance."
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When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.
Nouman Ali Khan

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Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it.
Philip Kotler

'Organizations concentrate excessively on the expense of executing a task. They ought to be more concerned about the potential repercussions of inaction.'
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver

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Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Hoes want attention, women want respect.
Drake

Ladies seek esteem, damsels crave consideration.
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It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.
Dr. Dre

'I'm large enough that I don't need to focus on hearsay, but I'm too mighty for it to occupy my thoughts.'
11.
Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Move your focus from talking to quietness and you will listen.
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A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.
Samuel Adams

A loyal nationalist would stimulate the awareness of his compatriots as to their grievances and not permit them to be pacified until their valid complaints are remedied.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Awareness implies focusing deliberately, in the here and now, without bias.
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Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.
Andrew Carnegie

Vow to be the monarch of your aspirations, ensuring that you will attain that title with an unimpaired standing, and swear no other pledge to divert your focus.
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If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.
Miles Davis

If you're not on edge then you're not paying heed.
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Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting!
Ronnie Coleman

Women really do notice a man's posterior. A toned, firm booty is often voted more attractive than brawny arms and chest. So, if you're deficient, commence squatting!
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
Charles R. Swindoll

The distinction between satisfactory and outstanding is meticulousness.
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Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.
Benedict of Nursia

Heed shall be given to the treatment of the ailing, so that they are treated as if they were divine.
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Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai.
Jerzy Grotowski

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The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
William Henry Harrison

21.
Live your life without attracting attention.
Epicurus

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Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
Saul Leiter

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Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.
Amartya Sen

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It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.
A. Philip Randolph

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Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver

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Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.
George H. Morris

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One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
Black Elk

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Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.
Nina Simone

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Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
Eliphas Levi

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Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways
Ashley Purdy

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Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.
David Whyte

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

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A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
Dolores Huerta

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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

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Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.
Rupert Spira

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If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.
Mumia Abu-Jamal

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I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.
Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
Leonard Ravenhill

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Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.
David Whyte

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I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.
William Golding

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A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Herbert Simon

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Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard Owen

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Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
Byron Katie

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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
Keith Henson

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The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
Angelus Silesius

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I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.
Albert Finney

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Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
Bob Newhart

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I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
Gabriel Byrne