Top 100 Pay No Attention Quotes
#1. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William J. Bennett
#2. Your life is define by you.
Pay no attention to what others says.
Pay attention to yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.
Seth Klarman
#4. We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.
Ramana Maharshi
#5. Whatever your mission, stick by it as if it were a law and you would be committing sacrilege to betray it. Pay no attention to whatever people might say; this no longer should influence you.
Epictetus
#6. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
Jean Sibelius
#7. The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Bokonon's paraphrase was this:
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. Pay no attention to haters,
attention is what they crave.
Cher Lloyd
#9. To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of conscience. More spiritual reading ... To waste no time. More conscientious about letters, visits, about these records. More charity.
Dorothy Day
#10. We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
Anais Nin
#11. I didn't mean to say that. Um, pay no attention to the lunatic inhabiting this body.
Thea Harrison
#12. The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#13. When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.
Carrie Vaughn
#14. One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.
Catherine Marshall
#15. Your body's dying...pay no attention
Anne Rice
#16. We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.
Therese De Lisieux
#17. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to plank in your own eye?"-Matthew 7:3
Anonymous
#18. I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself ... and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.
Miles Davis
#19. I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.
John Kasich
#20. Well you know when people around you treat you like a child and pay no attention to the things you say you have to do something.
Lynette Fromme
#21. Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.
Amelie Nothomb
#22. Jehan snorted. "He's a legend in his own mind. Pay no attention to him."
Sav barked a laugh. "Envy isn't a good look for you, Highness."
"And you may kiss my royal ass, peasant.
Lara Adrian
#23. Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.
Suzy Kassem
#24. 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
#25. He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him. He
Jack Kerouac
#26. Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
Gregory David Roberts
#27. We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.
Jean De La Bruyere
#28. Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
Gautama Buddha
#30. Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention ...
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#31. If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.
Sholom Aleichem
#32. In bringing dreams into fulfillment, pay no attention to different obstacles and difficulties
Sunday Adelaja
#33. Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic
Werner Erhard
#34. Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand
Robert Allen
#35. If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.
Sholom Aleichem
#36. I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?
Busta Rhymes
#37. No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
Moliere
#38. I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
T Bone Burnett
#39. Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#40. I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.
Donna Summer
#41. Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
#42. Pay no attention to the less courageous.
Sara Genn
#43. Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.
Christian Baloga
#44. School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
Brian Andreas
#46. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
L. Frank Baum
#47. A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
James Anthony Froude
#48. And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at first. That takes on meaning only later. In retrospect.
Herman Koch
#49. By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?
Deepak Chopra
#50. I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Chamfort
#51. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.
(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)
Stephen Colbert
#52. I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
Otis Rush
#54. Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.
Barbara Rose
#55. You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.
Ernest Hemingway,
#56. Pay no attention when I laugh," I begged him. "I'm a notorious pervert in that respect.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#57. Though the man of action, the politician, may sometimes pay no attention to the results of this examination, the man of thought will never cease to inquire into all things accessible to human intelligence. And in the long run thought must determine action.
Ludwig Von Mises
#58. I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#59. Accept what makes you happy and pay no attention to fearful beliefs no matter who they come from.
Raphael Zernoff
#60. In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
E.B. White
#61. If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.
Mircea Eliade
#62. Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!
Frederick Lenz
#63. Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.
Swami Vivekananda
#64. No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.
Christy Mathewson
#65. There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these.
Eduardo Souto De Moura
#66. Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#67. Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.
Diana Gabaldon
#68. Compared to their sense of smell, dogs seem to pay a lot less attention to their sense of taste. Apparently they believe that if something fits into their mouths, then it is food, no matter what it tastes like.
Stanley Coren
#69. That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.
David O. Russell
#70. Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.
Donald Trump
#71. There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#72. 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
#73. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra
#74. God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
Martin Luther
#75. Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.
Neil Postman
#76. When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
Lara St. John
#77. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
Bill O'Reilly
#78. Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.
Mason Cooley
#79. As cliche as this sounds, no one is going to live your life for you. You owe it to yourself to pay attention to what makes you happy and to do it. You have to trust your inner barometer of pleasure, and tune your life to that.
Joshua David Swift
#80. I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
Dalai Lama
#81. Examples of this kind teach us that one should not believe any human being, no matter how saintly he may be, but must pay attention to Him who calls and to His Word.
Martin Luther
#82. I know there's always going to be feedback no matter what the subject. I am shocked by somebody commenting on my shoes or my clothes. Everyone has an opinion, everyone is logging about everything and has an opinion. So I can't possibly pay attention to that.
Ellen DeGeneres
#83. I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.
Kirko Bangz
#84. I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.
Randeep Hooda
#85. We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.
Iain McGilchrist
#86. I find it easy to dress other women, but when it comes to myself, I find it very difficult. I used to have no particular interest in clothes. Now I enjoy it more and pay much more care and attention. But I do get it wrong lots of times, and I'm like every other woman: learning from experience.
Trinny Woodall
#87. Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.
William J. Clinton
#88. If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.
Roger Ebert
#89. I pay attention. Nothing more than that."
"You make it sound like it's no big deal to pay attention when the sad fact is, most people don't. It takes a lot of energy to listen.
Lauren Dane
#90. We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.
Nguyen Minh Triet
#91. When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.
La'el Collins
#92. Pay attention to what you're passionate about when no one is paying you.
Jessica Walsh
#93. One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.
Matt Dillon
#94. If you are dressing up, then dress to the hilt, else let it go easy. But no matter what, pay attention to the nails. Whether you keep it short, long, varnished or plain, it has to look good.
Sonam Kapoor
#95. Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#96. No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
Sydney J. Harris
#97. It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
Aaron Levie
#98. No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.
Paul Goodman
#99. ..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the immense satisfaction the feelings are providing.
Errol R. Fish
#100. If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.
Katie Uhlaender
