If You Don't Pay Attention Quotes

#1. 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

#2. As the Russians say: 'If you don't pay attention to politics, politics pays attention to you.

Marc Bennetts

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?

Ali Harris

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

David Allen

#11. I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the girl with the tits, You want them to pay attention to what you're saying

Jennifer Lawrence

#12. I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

Don Mattingly

#13. 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

#14. I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

Mehcad Brooks

#15. You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.

Donald Faison

#16. If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

Brad Bird

#17. If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

Ann M. Martin

#18. If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don't do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain.

Osho

#19. 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

#20. Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.

Frederick Lenz

#21. If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

Bodhidharma

#22. I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Lauren Bacall

#23. If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#24. That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

Natalie Goldberg

#25. I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

Alison Krauss

#26. Love people with all sincere attention, but don't overdo it as if you are not special. Don't lose yourself in the process of loving other people. Remember, you are special too!

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. I don't purposely push the boundaries ... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

Patrick Ness

#28. It's OK if you don't know how much more you can handle. It's fine if you don't know what to do next. Eventually, you'll let go of how things should be and start to see possibility based on reality. It's YOUR life, grasp the steering wheel and force yourself to pay attention to where you're going.

Wendy Keller

#29. If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

Julian Barnes

#30. 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

#31. There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

W.S. Merwin

#32. If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Reggie Watts

#33. When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.

Jenna Morasca

#34. Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back ... I'm telling you.

Matthew Quick

#35. You shouldn't pay attention to things that don't grab your attention. If you do, you're being a pretentious douchebag.

Paul Jarvis

#36. If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.

Dale Carnegie

#37. If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

David Allen

#38. 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

#39. If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Elizabeth Gillies

#40. Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.

Maxwell Maltz

#41. 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 songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

Merle Haggard

#42. Also, don't be afraid to make them get your hair, makeup, and lighting right. It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what you're trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what you're actually saying.

Tina Fey

#43. If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Agnes De Mille

#44. 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

#45. If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money.

Brandon Steiner

#46. 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