Top 100 Paying Attention To Quotes

#1. I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

George Clooney

#2. Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Margaret Heffernan

#3. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?

Carolyn Jourdan

#4. A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.

April Mae Monterrosa

#5. 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

#6. The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

Laozi

#7. I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#8. I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

Matthew Perry

#9. It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#10. Sometimes when you live with one man for more than half your life, you stop really seeing him. Not stop loving him. That center-of-my-heart kind of love doesn't go away. But really paying attention gets submerged in the stupid details of day to day life.

Kaje Harper

#11. So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist ... If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.

Thomas L. Friedman

#12. Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing - or more complicated - than it is today.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

Joshua Foer

#14. I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

Barry Sternlicht

#15. I think we're at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds - racial diversity, gender diversity, making room for a continuum that is more inclusive.

Sara Bareilles

#16. A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it.

Steve Maraboli

#17. I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues ... problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots.

Jon Krakauer

#18. She said things and I nodded. I didn't pay attention. She didn't pay attention to me. We floated through our days in that way.

Frederick Barthelme

#19. I realize I'm paying attention to nothing but the dandelions blowing wishes in my lungs.

Tahereh Mafi

#20. Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention and
curiosity.
Attention means paying attention.....
Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to know
how, and why?

Richard N. Bolles

#21. You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names ... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species that share your neighbourhood, you don't care about them and can't protect biodiversity.

Robert Bateman

#22. Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

Daniel Goleman

#23. Companies that were paying attention understood they were witnessing the birth of the "self-directed consumer", because the internet and all the other tools for the flat world had created a means for every consumer to customize exactly the price, experience, and service he or she wanted.

Thomas L. Friedman

#24. If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

Jack McDevitt

#25. I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'

Gloria Steinem

#26. You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Alan Shepard

#27. I know how you feel. I've been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major who said I had attention issues. Or at least that's what I think he said. I wasn't really paying attention. Anyway, where was I?

Darynda Jones

#28. In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Zygmunt Bauman

#29. There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

Indra Nooyi

#30. Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.

Marlon Wayans

#31. Obstetrics went about improving the same way Toyota and General Electric went about improving: on the fly, but always paying attention to the results and trying to better them. And

Atul Gawande

#32. The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.

George P. Shultz

#33. To transform the biological necessity of feeding into a flow experience, one must begin by paying attention to what one eats. It is astonishing - as well as discouraging - when guests swallow lovingly prepared food without any sign of having noticed its virtues. What

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#34. The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns.

Michael Moss

#35. If you have time to judge another person's life, you're not paying attention to yours.

Ginn Pascale

#36. Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

David Whyte

#37. Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

Jason Mraz

#38. The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.

Thomas Jones

#39. I think it's nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you've done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.

Joan Smalls

#40. So," I said as Cassidy and I headed toward Mr. Moreno's room, "I didn't see any secret messages last night."
"I didn't want to be predictable," Cassidy retorted. "But at least now I know you're paying attention.

Robyn Schneider

#41. When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

Tim O'Brien

#42. We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

Pol Pot

#43. 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

#44. It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Tommy Shaw

#45. You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it.

King Tuff

#46. But when interpreted correctly - paying attention to the original context, considering the literary genre, thinking through authorial intent - the Bible is never wrong in what it affirms and must never be marginalized as anything less than the last word on everything it teaches.

Kevin DeYoung

#47. I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Schoolboy Q

#48. 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

#49. It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

Taylor Swift

#50. Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#51. My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

Matisyahu

#52. She was in a free fall now. And it wasn't killing her. In fact, she was beginning to wonder if she might've had it backwards. All that fixating on the fall...maybe she should've been paying more attention to the free.

Gayle Forman

#53. it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#54. On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense.

Rooney Mara

#55. I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

Eugene Fama

#56. Had to learn to be present without paying quite so much attention to my poor old overamped mind, because this was the source of most of my unhappiness. And it still is. The

Anne Lamott

#57. Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Rand Olson

#58. We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.

Gwen Ifill

#59. I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.

Vin Diesel

#60. I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

Jeremy Paxman

#61. We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

Cynthia Nixon

#62. I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'

John Benjamin Hickey

#63. 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.

E.B. White

#64. You don't really want to see the movie, do you?"
"I was enjoying it."
"You weren't paying any attention."
"That doesn't meant I wasn't enjoying myself. It's a comedy, right?"
"Sort of," he said. "The daughter gets cancer and dies.

Marshall Thornton

#65. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up.

Anne Lamott

#66. The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Theodore Roosevelt

#67. 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

#68. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

Robert Fulghum

#69. All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.

Bradley Joseph

#70. I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

Peter Matthiessen

#71. You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

Cassandra Clare

#72. Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Doug Cooper

#73. It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

Diego Klattenhoff

#74. Because we don't fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and drive at the same time, even though it is literally impossible for our brains to multitask when it comes to paying attention.

John Medina

#75. I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Brian Andreas

#76. The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give. Be a mother who listens, a father who cuddles, a friend who calls back, a helping neighbor, a loving child.

Deborah Blum

#77. In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

Karen Joy Fowler

#78. Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people ... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

Brene Brown

#79. I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.

Anthony Fauci

#80. You can't seem to keep your eyes in one place. I can tell that you're paying attention, but you seem to be looking for something." I

Kiera Cass

#81. We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.

Conor Oberst

#82. 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

#83. If we are looking for some specific, expected danger, we are less likely to see the unexpected danger. I urge that she pay relaxed attention to her environment rather than paying rapt attention to her imagination.

Gavin De Becker

#84. The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me.

David Foster Wallace

#85. One final insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don't put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don't have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it's truly essential that you do.

David Rock

#86. I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

Biz Stone

#87. It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

Frank Caliendo

#88. You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Paulo Coelho

#89. Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#90. You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Robin Williams

#91. To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

Donald Faison

#92. Fet was paying close attention to the old man. "You know what?" he said. "Twice when you were just talking, I heard you say the word 'vampire.'" Setrakian looked at him evenly. "That you did." After

Guillermo Del Toro

#93. Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

Marvin Hagler

#94. When authors write a predominantly white cast, it reflects who they're paying attention to in life.

Kira Hawke

#95. Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space.

Donella H. Meadows

#96. Brand marketers don't believe that ad-tech companies view brands as true partners. Ad-tech companies think brand marketers are paying attention to the wrong things. And publishers, with a few important exceptions, feel taken advantage of by everyone.

John Battelle

#97. The only thing that holds you back from getting what you want is paying attention to what you don't want.

Abraham Hicks

#98. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

Clinton Kelly

#99. Pritkin was saying something, something I should probably be paying attention to since he was looking a little ... stressed.

Karen Chance

#100. It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

Ryan Lochte

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