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• The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Stars, Moving, Sky

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

  Christopher Paolini

  Smart, Humor, World

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.151, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Heart, Practice

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.3, Random House

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• My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  Randy Pausch

  Simple, Men, Long

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

  Samuel Beckett

  Believe, Attention, Pay

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.94, Grove Press

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• Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Heart, Important, Attention

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Together, World

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

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• Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teacher, Inspiration, Knowing

  Deepak Chopra (1993). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Harmony

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• Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

  Paulo Coelho

  Patience, Important, Attention

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• Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

  A. A. Milne

  Attention, Might, Pay

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• Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

  Og Mandino

  Effort, Attention, Pay

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• A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

  Robert Redford

  Acting, Attention

  "Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars : A Quiz Book" by Andrew J. Rausch, (p. 216), 2003.

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• I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

  Don Mattingly

  Writing, Media, Attention

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• The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

  Stephen Levine

  Listening, Attention, Being Human

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• I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Extraordinary Moments, Finding Happiness

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• Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

  Robert Crippen

  Dirty, Sleep, Camping

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• I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

  Ron Kittle

  Funny, Money, Attention

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• I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.

  Dan Dierdorf

  Basketball, Determination, Fall

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

  Jerry Rubin

  Mistake, Thinking, Yesterday

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• So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher,
  And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Attention, Pay

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• I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the girl with the tits, You want them to pay attention to what you're saying

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Funny, Girl, Real

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• This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attention

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

  Tom Brady

  Monday, Morning, Attention

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