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• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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• I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

  Michael Shannon

  Dark, People, Pay

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• This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

  John Thune

  Independent, Approval Rating, Self

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• Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Opening Up, Silence, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.136, New World Library

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• I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With his hands and his range, I don't worry about that with Zimmerman. He is a good defensive player.

  Jim Bowden

  Player, Errors, Hands

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• When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Attention

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• Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

  Robert Genn

  Effectiveness, Keys, Focus

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• Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gratitude, Positive Thinking, Attention

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• Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Real, Attention

  "Miss Manners: Don't post anything that might offend a future boss" by Judith Martin, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

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• When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Details, Attention

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• I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Ideas, Trying, Attention

  "Angelina Jolie". Interview with Clint Eastwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2011.

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• I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.

  Natalie Portman

  Skills, People, Attention

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Love happens when we pay attention

  Declan Donnellan

  Attention, Pay, Happens

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• I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

  Jean Tirole

  Attention, Pay, Should

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• There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

  Eva Green

  Strong, Hate, People

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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  Ann Shulgin

  Simple, Long Ago, Finding Yourself

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Twilight, Eye

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• Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Experts, Attention, Pay

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.173, Princeton University Press

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• The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Doe, Attention

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.137

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• We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Want, Pay, Attention

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Thinking, Inspire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.

  Bill Reid

  Art, Unique, Thinking

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• I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is that I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to, obviously, the individual. Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.

  Johnny Depp

  Fall, Numbers, Challenges

  "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Interview ALICE IN WONDERLAND". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 3, 2010.

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• If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

  Reggie Watts

  Thinking, Attention, World

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