Top 100 Don't Pay Attention Quotes
#1. As the Russians say: 'If you don't pay attention to politics, politics pays attention to you.
Marc Bennetts
#2. When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.
Betty White
#3. Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
Ronald Reagan
#4. If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.
Dean Rusk
#5. You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.
Norton Juster
#6. I don't pay attention to politics." "You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat." "I don't pay attention to that, either.
Robert A. Heinlein
#7. You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.
J Dilla
#9. I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.
Virat Kohli
#10. people don't pay attention to boring things
John Medina
#11. I don't pay attention to the
world Ending.
It has ended for me
many Times
and began again in the morning.
Nayyirah Waheed
#12. I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.
Tom Glavine
#13. I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.
Ronald Burkle
#14. I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.
Dan Dierdorf
#15. Don't pay attention to the people that hate you but why they do, as that's where you find your real value and uniqueness.
Daniel Marques
#16. Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.
Dennis Miller
#17. I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
Clint Eastwood
#18. People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.
Martin Walser
#19. I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.
Scott Baio
#20. My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.
Jonas Mekas
#21. Our problem is that we don't pay attention to what we actually know. We give our attention to what we think - to what we have ideas or beliefs about - and we discard what we actually see.
Steve Hagen
#22. I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#24. Since mistakes of omission don't appear in the financial statements, most people don't pay attention to them. We rub our noses in mistakes of omission - as we just did.
Charlie Munger
#25. If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
David Allen
#26. There's death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don't pay attention. Until we do.
Cynthia Hand
#27. Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.
Billy Sherwood
#28. Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
Louis C.K.
#29. I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
Ellen DeGeneres
#30. If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.
Julia Bacha
#31. People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.
Geoff Rickly
#32. When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignore you... they don't talk a lot of with you.....
Deyth Banger
#33. My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.
Cher
#34. There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.
Don Shula
#35. Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.
Talib Kweli
#36. If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
Bruce Greenwood
#37. I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.
Kevin Gates
#38. Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.'
Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.'
Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.
Robert A. Heinlein
#39. The problem ... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
John McCain
#40. My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
Adam Sandler
#41. Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention.
Bill Maher
#42. If I'm writing a book, and I'm warned, 'Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,' or, 'It has to be this, or that,' I'm proud to say I don't pay attention.
William T. Vollmann
#44. If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money.
Brandon Steiner
#45. Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.
Brandy Norwood
#46. Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream
Oprah Winfrey
#47. I guess you just don't pay attention. I think you're too busy attempting to fade.
Rebecca Donovan
#48. As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.
Chuck D
#49. I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#51. I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
Rachel Kushner
#52. Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#53. I don't pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that's the whole world
John Frusciante
#54. I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'
Joel Kinnaman
#55. People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
Cormac McCarthy
#56. My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.
Alan King
#57. If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.
Brad Bird
#58. We go through life and don't pay attention to God even when he's yelling. Then there are the moments you never expect and can't avoid. It is at those times when you can hear him ever so clearly; even when he's whispering.
Benjamin J. Carey
#59. I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.
Alexander Kluge
#60. Remember, your body is the vehicle that your soul is using here on Earth. If you don't pay attention and take great care with your vehicle, it will break and become useless. Then your soul will be released and return.
Sister Souljah
#61. For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
Missy Franklin
#62. I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.
Joan Jett
#63. Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?
Ali Harris
#64. It doesn't matter what you do, if you love what you do, then you don't sweat the little things. You just don't pay attention to them. Then when the big things come along, they're never as big as what they seem to somebody who doesn't have a passion for it and doesn't really love it.
Kyle Petty
#65. Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.
Joyce Carol Oates
#66. Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.
Huangbo Xiyun
#67. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying? At
Sarah Dessen
#68. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
Sarah Dessen
#69. When you have a bird on your shoulder, you don't know when it might fly away, so you do everything you can to keep from flying away...
but once you realize it can't escape, then you don't pay attention to it any more.
Tsukasa Hojo
#70. You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think ... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
Harold Simmons
#71. I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.
Jason Mewes
#72. While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.
Woody Allen
#73. I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so ... interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.
Bill Cunningham
#74. When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.
Lily Collins
#75. The only thing worse than parents who don't pay attention to you is parents who pat you on the shoulder on their way out the door
Katie Alender
#77. I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
Paul Haggis
#78. I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.
Fred Couples
#79. Don't look.
See.
Don't think.
Feel.
Don't hear.
Listen.
Pay attention
Miracles really do happen every day
A.D. Posey
#80. Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.
Joel Spolsky
#81. Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
Toni Morrison
#82. Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
Evan Daugherty
#83. In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues.
Yuval Noah Harari
#84. We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
Cameron Russell
#85. It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
Robert Redford
#86. Pay attention to the road, Sensei. I know how you prefer to look at me while I'm blowing you, but I don't want to die choking on your dick after you wreck your fancy car.
Lorelei James
#87. I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can't tell them apart and I'm not really aware of class. I don't pay any attention to those boundaries. I'm a California girl.
Danielle De Niese
#88. Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
Holly Valance
#89. I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.
Eugene H. Peterson
#90. On still another road, a green-haired man wobbled by on peppermint-stick stilts; a fiery-plumed bird of paradise perched on his shoulder. But he's not in this story, so don't pay any attention to him.
Christopher Healy
#91. I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
Sue Grafton
#92. People don't pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to
Erin Morgenstern
#93. How People Learn. If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.
John Medina
#94. Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.
Michael Pollan
#95. Don't listen to the voice in your head, but pay close attention to the voice of your heart.
Maria Teresa De Donato
#96. I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.
Jeff Tweedy
#97. pay attention to that little voice inside your head that sends you prompts, insights, and hunches. Note things that you don't understand, and rather than shying away from them, turn them into questions to pursue.
Todd Henry
#98. I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and vote. It doesn't matter; you can believe whatever you want to believe, but this is the time everybody should be paying a lot of attention.
Andrew McMahon
#99. I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.
Brooke Burke
#100. Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.
Chen-Ning Yang
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