Pay Attention Quotes - Page 30

• If you closed your eyes during that [Donald Trump] conference and you didn`t pay attention to who was saying those words, it could have been Jeb Bush saying those words last year, Jeb Bush. It could have been Marco Rubio saying those words last year during the primaries, because that`s the position of, well, those two Floridians, you know, no pathway to citizenship according to Jeb Bush, pathway to citizenship in the long term, according to Marco Rubio, but talking about the need to brush up on the border.

  Jose Diaz-Balart

  Eye, Talking, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Attention, Care

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

  Shauna Niequist

  Mean, Long, Tears

  Shauna Niequist (2013). “Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes”, p.65, Zondervan

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• If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

  Shauna Niequist

  Tears, Attention, Pay

  Shauna Niequist (2013). “Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes”, p.65, Zondervan

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• If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Practice, Attention

  T. K. V. Desikachar (1999). “The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• For the most part Ho Chi Minh City is safe but like any large city you need to pay attention to what's going on around you.

  Doug Rice

  Cities, Safe, Pay

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• [People] feel Washington doesn't understand their lives anymore, and they feel that even though Donald Trump might make a mistake with what he says from time to time, they see that as authenticity and maybe somebody who will truly pay attention to them, because they feel ignored.

  John Brabender

  Mistake, People, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.

  John Irving

  Baseball, Song, Thinking

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.

  Kevin Biegel

  Thinking, Knowing, Generations

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

  Ian Bogost

  Trying, Attention, Why Not

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Heart, Attention

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• If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.

  Jill Stein

  Color, Years, Attention

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Silly, Long, Attention

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We do not want to repeat ourselves [in Doctor Strange] or do what's been done before necessarily, and when you have a track record now you can either do that and keep, this seems to work and let's keep doing this - which some people accuse us of no matter what, because I don't think they pay attention, but really what we do is say, 'Okay, we have a studio that trusts us and let's us do what we want for the most part with the creative.

  Kevin Feige

  Thinking, Doctors, People

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Men, Thinking, Attention

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.

  Lizz Winstead

  Rights, Air, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I took the original stuff that I read as standalone [in The Flash]. I didn't have anything to refer to, so to me it was all new. It's delightfully simple, the show, but it has many moving parts. It certainly makes you pay attention.

  Tom Felton

  Moving, Simple, Attention

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Some people say that parents don't matter, and that's not true at all. The irony is that we pay attention to all these things that don't matter, and not to what does matter, such as parents having enough resources to provide an environment where their children have both security and freedom.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Security And Freedom, People

  Interview with Jessica Zack, www.sfgate.com. September 29, 2016.

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• Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

  Martha Ronk

  Fall, Writing, Groups

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton. And that's because they're paying attention.

  Mike Pence

  People, Attention, Reason Why

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much, or at times, they're quite frank, they didn't care much about Afghanistan. But they pay attention more after reading these novels, and at times it has triggered this humaitarian spirt: some have donated money or at time times, people have joined humatiarian organizations that work in Afghanistan.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Reading, Organization, People

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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• I think the rapid rate at which people started caring and paying attention, because it's just something that I don't think you can really prepare for - there's no textbook on it. Just the amount of interest that people have in me and Alice and the "Twilight" series and the rest of my cast.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Caring, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.

  Dale Jamieson

  People, Diversity, Community

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

  Paul Beatty

  Nice, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff [Man Booker Prize] very much. I think part of it is I can see myself wondering who's doing what and getting jealous, and none of that's healthy for me. So I just don't really.

  Paul Beatty

  Jealous, Men, Thinking

  "Paul Beatty: I See You". Interview With Chris Paul Wolfe, www.guernicamag.com. October 27, 2016.

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