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• I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Believe, Fate

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• It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

  Tim O'Brien

  Blood, Giving, Together

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My lord," catherine asked,her eyes wide, "do you think that has anything to do with the Ramsay curse?" "Actually, that hadn't occurred to me yet," Leo said, "thank you so much for bringing it to my attention.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Thinking, Lord

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

  Cynthia Lord

  Pigs, World, Mouths

  Cynthia Lord (2006). “Rules”

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• ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines was"If your eyes weren't open you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking' It hadn't meant meant much to me at the time. After all there'd been a guy in the class that i liked so how could i be expected to pay attention to literary analysis? Now three year later i understand the poem perfectly.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Writing, Eye

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

  Philippa Gregory

  Eye, Center Of Attention, Singles

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.

  Suzanne Collins

  Bereavement, Care, Way

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• Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Stress, What Matters

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.

  Larissa Ione

  Powerful, Drawing, Meat

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• Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pigs, Katniss, Lines

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Believe, Yelling

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.11, Crown Archetype

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• Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

  Thomas Keller

  Moving, Long, Cooking

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• I’m in pain. That’s the only way I get your attention

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Way, Mockingjay Book

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• Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

  Euripides

  Agony, Special, Might

  Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.189, Oxford University Press

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• Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as if Magnus seemed to be paying attention to what Will was doing, and he'd honestly never imagined two people could get themselves into a position like that, much less make it look artistic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Two, People

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.836, Simon and Schuster

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• The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tired, Fighting, People

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Dad, Liars

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• This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Song, Two, Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Philosophy, Loss

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.134, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Keys, Issues, Political

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• If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

  Inga Muscio

  Heart, Animal, Hair

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• The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, Hero

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reading, Character, Giving

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• Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Fall, Winter

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