Pay Attention Quotes - Page 25

• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Basketball, Soccer, Kids

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• To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Self, Design, Pay

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• Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Attention, Goes On, Pay

  "The Great Debate: To Automate or Not" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

  Laozi

  Humble, Attention, Done

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• If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, White, America

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• Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Light, Cracks, Attention

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• Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Self Esteem, Safe Environment, Pay

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• If you really pay attention to the movie, it comes into play, in many different sections.

  Chris Diamantopoulos

  Play, Different, Attention

  Source: collider.com

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• I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• We're well aware of how intelligent our audience is. We're well aware that Fringe is a show that you really need to lean forward into and pay attention to and think about. It's not designed to be a show that you can watch while you're folding laundry.

  Jeff Pinkner

  Intelligent, Thinking, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

  Jason Reitman

  Jobs, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

  Reid Hoffman

  Culture, Attention, Pay

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• You've got your entourage and people that help you make whatever happen around you. Everything's crazy and you're not paying attention to your inner feelings because you're so busy. I couldn't take it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Crazy, People, Feelings

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• We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

  Peter Erskine

  Attention, World, Pay

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• I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

  Rufus Wainwright

  Writing, People, Musical

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• They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?

  Behdad Sami

  Wise, Mistake, Men

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• Pay attention to your body. Is this the only place where they should live.

  Jim Rohn

  Attention, Body, Pay

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• People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

  Charley Pride

  Race, People, Attention

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Attention, Pay

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.320, Princeton University Press

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• By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

  Shirley Temple

  Attention, Lines, Pay

  "REVIEW/ART; What Makes Shirley Run, in Her Own Words" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 1988.

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• I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

  George Clooney

  Mistake, Turkeys, Careers

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• You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Feelings, Attention

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

  Kevin Peter Hall

  Views, Circles, Attention

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• I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, School, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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