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• I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

  David Macaulay

  Book, People, Trying

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• 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

  Successful, Lucky, Attention

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• We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

  Tony Campolo

  Attention, Pay, Failing

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• We should, can and most of the time do communicate with God directly. To my knowledge, angels are not necessary for anything. But God's creation is abundant, and asking "Why angels?" would be like asking why there are thousands of varieties of trees or stars, when we could get along with so much less. God Himself told us many times that He was sending angels to love and care for us, so He is the one who brought them into our lives. Therefore, even if we don't understand their entire purpose, I vote that we pay attention to them.

  Joan Anderson

  Stars, Angel, Asking Why

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• Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard.

  Christina Baldwin

  Trying, Needs, Attention

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.35, New World Library

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• Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

  Nita Leland

  Voice, Creative, Attention

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative.... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else.

  April Bloomfield

  Jobs, Hard Work, Passion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

  Buddy Guy

  Attention, Pay, Said

  "Buddy Guy: 'Blues Musicians Don’t Retire, They Drop'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 6, 2012.

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• Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.

  Laura Bush

  Borders, Needs, Attention

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• I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.

  John Kasich

  Change, Strength, Country

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, People, Attention

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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• Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

  Pat Conroy

  Children, Men, Taught Us

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inability, Principles, Attention

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

  Joe Torre

  Years, Numbers, Attention

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• When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them.  They are felt as presences.  Without them I would die...they change before my eyes.  They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying.  I am floated on their moments.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Eye, Growth

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• At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people I respect and admire. And that will come in its time. In the meantime, "Pay attention to your work. Get better at what you do." That's my job.

  Ann Dowd

  Dream, Jobs, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• It doesn't matter what you do, if you love what you do, then you don't sweat the little things. You just don't pay attention to them. Then when the big things come along, they're never as big as what they seem to somebody who doesn't have a passion for it and doesn't really love it.

  Kyle Petty

  Passion, Sweat, Attention

  "A CSJ Conversation with Kyle Petty". Interview with Chad Bonham, christiansportsjournal.com. January 16, 2017.

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• We as women look around for things that we need to pay attention too just in case.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Needs, Looks, Attention

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• I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Opportunity, Attention, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Careers, Ideas

  "Madonna On A Mission". Parade Interview, parade.com. June 24, 2008.

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• I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Running, Average, Attention

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• Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Mean, Attention, Awareness

  Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.228, Crown Business

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• If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Powerful, House, Needs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “The Last American Man”, p.13, A&C Black

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• The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Personal Transformation, Attention, Pay

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• We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Attention, Shapes, Pay

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