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• The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

  Michael Pollan

  Leadership, Issues, Political

  Interview with Russell Schoch, michaelpollan.com. January 4, 2004.

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• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Causes, Size

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• I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Squash, Attention

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• If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

  Dean Rusk

  Change, Attention, Pay

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• I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

  Ronald Burkle

  Thinking, America, Attention

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• If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Jesus, Attention

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• Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Believe, Keys, Differences

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• In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

  William Beebe

  Ocean, Silly, Eye

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• The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

  Susan Sontag

  Attention, World, Pay

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• I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Teaching, Thinking, Giving

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• People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

  Tony Dorsett

  People, Needs, Attention

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• Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Self, Voice, Listening

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• Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

  Peggy Noonan

  Flower, Expression, Together

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

  Indra Nooyi

  Jobs, Eye, Opportunity

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• We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Feel Good, Attention, Pay

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• Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

  Larry Norman

  Believe, People, Attention

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• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Writing, Average

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• I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

  Biz Stone

  Smart, Long, Attention

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• If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

  James Lileks

  Thinking, Attention, 80s

  James Lileks (2004). “Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible 70's”, Crown Pub

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• This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

  Sarah Manguso

  Suffering, Important, Attention

  Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta

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• Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Attention, Politics, Pay

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• Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments to be really, fully present, but because you thought you were busy, you didn't see the opportunities these moments presented. . . . People carry around an enormous amount of grief because they missed the little things.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Grief, Kids

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• The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something for more than a few minutes. When Moses did, God spoke. The trick is to pay attention to what is going on around you long enough to behold the miracle without falling asleep. There is another world, right here within this one, whenever we pay attention.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Fall, Long, Miracle

  Lawrence Kushner (2016). “God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know, 25th Anniversary Edition: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning”, p.27, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay awake." "Pay attention." But paying attention is no simple matter. It requires us not to be distracted by expectations, past experiences, labels, and masks. It asks that we not jump to early conclusions and that we remain open to surprise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Past, Simple, Class

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