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• I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Meaningful, Jobs, Writing

  "Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

  Bernie Siegel

  Strong, Heart, Mean

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• Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's a wonderful concept. I also love the thought of unicorns jumping over cotton candy rainbows. I'm even considering taking up basketball to see if it makes me taller. Come on already! Suggesting that someone who struggles with his weight does not need to think about calories is as risky as suggesting you not look at price tags the next time you're in the market for a car.

  Chalene Johnson

  Love, Basketball, Struggle

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• For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and behavior, intuitions about their area of experience.

  Charles Faulkner

  Thinking, Years, Intuition

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• What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

  Geneen Roth

  Motivational, Love Yourself, Self Love

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

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• To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act -- and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat.

  Geneen Roth

  Believe, Thinking, Attention

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

  Geneen Roth

  Attention, Body, Want

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Attention, All Things

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• Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

  Natasha Hamilton

  Attention, Enjoy, Audience

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• Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, Who said this? but pay attention to what is said.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Attention, Pay, Said

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• People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

  David Foster Wallace

  People, Attention, Authority

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• I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.

  Martha Stewart

  Important, Age, Attention

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• When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sight, Effort, Sound

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• It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

  Ellen Lupton

  People, Design, Get Better

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• Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

  David Whyte

  Giving, Attention, Stories

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• The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Stars, Names, Numbers

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• To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different?

  Chris Guillebeau

  Jobs, Regret, Different

  Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.68, Harmony

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• Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

  Gay Hendricks

  Life Lesson, Hands, Numbers

  Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Men, Feelings, Doe

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• When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.

  Ralph Marston

  Mean, Feelings, Attention

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• Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that

  Amy Lee

  Girl, Strong Women, Rocks

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• Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

  Larry Dossey

  Feelings, Intuition, Attention

  Larry Dossey (2010). “The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities, and Cre ate a Better Life”, p.10, Penguin

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• Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.

  Barbara Damrosch

  Garden, Needs, Attention

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• Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

  Leslie Jamison

  Choices, Empathy, Brain

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.23, Granta Books

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• From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.

  Frederick Buechner

  Drama, Boys, Men

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.26, Zondervan

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