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• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

  Tom Peters

  Positive, Simple, Productive Work

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• We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

  William Graham Sumner

  Done, Wells, Idle

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

  Nora Ephron

  Real, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 02, 2012

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• Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Kissing

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• I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Happy, Butterfly

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• Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Teacher, Loneliness

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• Pay attention; don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Falling In Love, Cereal, Pay

  "Oprah Talks to Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2007.

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• Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Breathing, Space

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2009

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• It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

  Amit Ray

  Life, Positive, Spiritual

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.98, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Perception, May, Notes

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

  Ridley Scott

  Play, People, Looks

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• If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Caring, Touching

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

  Eminem

  Love, Too Much

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• The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

  William Bartram

  Travel, Journey, May

  William Bartram (1792). “Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates”, p.8

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• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Procrastination

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• Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Player, Rays, Intense

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• He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

  Arthur Miller

  Failure, Character, Finest

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

  Little Richard

  Mother, Pay, Company

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• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

  Herbert Simon

  Spiritual, Science, Interesting

  "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

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• Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, Decision, Vision

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

  Andrew Weil

  Different, Body, Pay

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• Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

  Janet Fitch

  Lonely, Space, Want

  "White Oleander". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

  Arthur Miller

  Dog, Fall, Character

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

  Og Mandino

  Effort, Pay, Pay Attention

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