Top 100 Quotes About Paying Attention
#1. The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer
#2. 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
#3. The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
Kelly McGonigal
#4. Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
Simon Sinek
#5. Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.
Nancy Atherton
#6. Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.
Spencer Johnson
#7. Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.
Nathaniel Branden
#8. We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
Mike Johanns
#9. The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
Stephen Levine
#10. Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.
Tamora Pierce
#11. Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings about the way some guy fucked her and didn't call. But I don't believe in a finite economy of empathy; I happen to think that paying attention yields as much as it taxes.
Leslie Jamison
#12. 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
#13. I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
Jewel
#14. We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal
Sebastiao Salgado
#15. The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren't paying attention.
Elizabeth Bear
#16. The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.
Thomas Pogge
#17. Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.
Anthony Jeselnik
#19. I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.
Will Smith
#20. 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
#21. Don't blame the hunter if you aren't paying attention enough to spot the traps.
T.T. Escurel
#22. The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
Elizabeth Thornton
#23. If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
David Macaulay
#24. I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
Viggo Mortensen
#25. The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.
El DeBarge
#26. We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.
Rick Warren
#27. 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
#28. You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.
Linda Ronstadt
#29. AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time ... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.
Rico Love
#30. Anyone who offends me deserves to hear exactly how they trespassed - or needs to be lulled into a false sense of security before the sneak attack when they aren't paying attention.
Patricia Briggs
#31. But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.
Julia Alvarez
#32. 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
#34. I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.
Lewis Black
#35. It's evident to anyone paying attention that zero tolerance equals 100 percent stupidity. But you have to understand that zero-tolerance rules aren't about protecting kids. They exist to protect the adults who are too cowardly to make judgments.
Jonathan V. Last
#36. Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.
Dave DiGrazie
#37. When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.
Colin Munroe
#38. When you start paying attention to diversity, you notice it (and notice its absence!). And based on the culture of your upbringing and the culture of your organization, you may or may not be primed to think consciously about innovation.
David Livermore
#39. We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
Frederick Buechner
#40. Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.
Mike Young
#42. There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.
Dada Bhagwan
#43. Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.
Michael Ray
#44. Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we're too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.
Anthony Doerr
#45. I swear I've spent half my life hiding behind a couch and the other half wondering why no one was paying attention to me. On
Sarah Hepola
#46. If you have any questions for Jesus Christ it is only because you were not paying attention when he said "It is finished; I died for you on the cross." John 19:30.
Felix Wantang
#47. 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
#48. I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late.
Carly Fiorina
#49. Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.
Tim McIlrath
#50. When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.
Michael Ovitz
#51. 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
#52. A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
Daniel Goleman
#53. Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.
Daniel Negreanu
#54. The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.
Deepak Chopra
#55. Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.
Daniel Goleman
#56. Try not to assess your sanity through others. Those who think you should be institutionalized are overreacting and those who think you're stable just aren't paying attention.
Alex Bosworth
#57. Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.
Steven Redhead
#58. I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
Lucy Punch
#59. 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
#60. Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.
Joseph O'Neill
#61. Bad things open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before.
N.M. Facile
#62. it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#63. Barack Obama hasn't kept us safe. The problem is we had an attack in San Bernardino. And we were paying attention to the most important issue we have faced in a decade since 9/11, and then all the talk was about this proposal, which isn't going to happen.
Marco Rubio
#64. You will also be called upon to provide well-timed distractions. Get the whole country arguing about sex education or gays in the military, and Americans will stop paying attention to all the things they should fear.
Kirsten Miller
#65. I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag
#66. I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.
Chelsea Handler
#67. Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life?
Colin Beavan
#68. Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by
Blaine Hogan
#69. 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
#70. I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.
Tucker Carlson
#71. It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.
Barack Obama
#72. you have not been / paying attention
Thom Yorke
#73. Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.
Jon Lester
#74. It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.
Eugene Richards
#75. 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
#76. What are you?.
Ghouls," said the Bishop of Bath and Wells. "Bless me, somebody wasn't paying attention, was he? We're ghouls."
"Look!
Neil Gaiman
#77. I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff.
Lia Ices
#78. Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
Charles Dickens
#79. Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
Tara Brach
#80. Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Susan M Dodd
#81. People's stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.
William Deresiewicz
#82. We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.
Paul O'Brien
#83. Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
Christopher Paolini
#84. If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention
Lisa Borden
#85. 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
#86. Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.
Trai Byers
#87. Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
J. C. Watts
#88. Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
Natasha Hamilton
#89. We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.
Vinoba Bhave
#90. That I knew I'd misjudged you. That you do love him. I'm not saying in what way. Maybe you don't even know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him.
Suzanne Collins
#91. While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What also matters is acknowledging and responding to this feedback. This is how you nurture your relationship with your audience.
Cendrine Marrouat
#92. 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
#93. Nature awakens your senses and paying attention to sensory details inspires imagination.
Mary Schramski
#94. It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Nathalie Sarraute
#95. Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.
Estelle
#96. Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.
Evan Spiegel
#97. To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#98. 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
#99. If you think I don't spend a good percentage of every day trying to figure you out, you're not paying attention.
Sylvia Day
#100. Love can really look strange in the Point. In fact, if you aren't paying attention you might miss it altogether because it doesn't look like love at all.
Jay Crownover
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