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• Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Wall, Honesty, Moving

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• One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Color, People

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• There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

  Mark Steyn

  Years, Europe, Twenties

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• Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation...Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand --the words go deep.

  Peter Elbow

  Real, Writing, Voice

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• I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Kicking, Attention, Want

  Eugene H. Peterson (2011). “The Pastor: A Memoir”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Talking, Heaven, Attention

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.

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• The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

  Maureen Dowd

  Silence, Sound, Attention

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• There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.

  Jordan Belfort

  Book, Needs, Attention

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• The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Greatest Fear, People

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• Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

  Ben Marcus

  Feelings, Attention, Done

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.29, Vintage

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• My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Jobs, Children, Attention

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

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• All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, Tired, Long

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• When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Home, Voice, Attention

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• I do not give a damn what I look like, I don't. I wish I could pay attention because Gwen Stefani, say, looks flawless. Of course, when I'm on red carpets, I'm nervous, sweaty, and weird.

  Selena Gomez

  Giving, Wish, Looks

  "Selena Gomez: I’m Nervous, Sweaty & Weird On The Red Carpet" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they will be a little bigger then they are today. This day is a gift. Breathe and notice. Smell and touch them; study their faces and little feet and pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today mama. It will be over before you know it.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Children, Smell, Feet

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• Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Hater, Trying

  "JC Penney reveals customers' show of support for Ellen DeGeneres" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Determination, Children

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• The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Missing, Mindfulness, Attention

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• Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you CAN judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Men, Color

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• In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings.

  Suzy Kassem

  Real, Eye, Angel

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• If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.
  You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment.
  Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Cutting, Past

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• The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Numbers, Eugenics

  John Maynard Keynes (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Joy

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• It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention to how you feel and practice self-empowering thoughts that align with who you really are, you will offer an example of thriving that will be of tremendous value to those who have the benefit of observing you.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Practice

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• You've got to pay attention to what you're attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you're gonna be attracted to things that are going to be attracted to you, but it literally moves into physical reality with and through you and it does that by law.

  Bob Proctor

  Moving, Law Of Attraction, Reality

  "Positive Thinking: Questioning Its Power" by Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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