Pay Attention Quotes - Page 35

• I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the Franco-Belgian, the Japanese manga, and the American comics. I started thinking about the relationship between Japanese manga and Japanese architecture, or Franco-Belgian bande dessinée versus Franco-Belgian architecture, it began to make sense; there are parallels to the modes of operations and the cultures they belong to. If I didn't force myself to write, I would have no forum to clarify these thoughts. Writing is really helpful.

  Jimenez Lai

  Writing, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

  Wayne Dyer

  Men, Thinking, Attention

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• I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis, a threat from outside which is met with inhospitable wall building, it's different. And I think it's helpful to notice the big patterns in history, but it's also important to pay attention to the details, which makes each situation distinct from another.

  Lucy Hughes-Hallett

  Wall, Thinking, Important

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• Sometimes if you just take the time to really pay attention and break it down, you can figure out what caused it. And from there, generally, I can pull myself up out of it. And if I can't, that's where the support group comes in.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Support, Attention, Sometimes

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• Not that long ago, the idea of feeding your kid with organic fruit and vegetables or paying attention to sustainability or any of that - that was very fringy. And I guess some people will argue it still is to a degree, but it's kind of mainstream fringy now.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Kids, Long, People

  "Are Disney Princesses Evil?". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.

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• Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

  Antisthenes

  Business, Powerful, Mistake

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 12)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Regret, Independent, Careers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.

  Michele Bachmann

  Makeup, Men, Hair

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• You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

  Martha Beck

  School, Parent, Social Pressure

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• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  Victoria Beckham

  Hands, Details, Attention

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• We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Looks, Attention

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• Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, Decision, Vision

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• History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

  Adora Svitak

  Challenges, Attention, Pay

  "Do We Treat History Like a Dead Language?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, People, Trying

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  Eddie Vedder

  Strong, Children, Kids

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• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  J. C. Watts

  Hard Work, School, Responsibility

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• Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

  Andrew Weil

  Different, Attention, Body

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• The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

  Ricky Williams

  Reality, Attention, Pay

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• We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Phones, Cells

  "Edward Snowden is a hero" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2013.

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• At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Night, Blue

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2897, Delphi Classics

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• Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, Book

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.106, Penguin

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• Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Meditation, Connections

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• This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.

  Zane

  Attention, May, Pay

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• The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Dream, Cheer

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

  Larry Winget

  Example, Backyards, Attention

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