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• Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Giving, Perspective

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• He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Smart, Boys

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• Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

  Blaine Hogan

  Artist, Attention, Sitting

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• There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.

  Damian Kulash

  People, Video, Attention

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• If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money.

  Brandon Steiner

  Attention, Want, Pay

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• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Children, Rights

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The important thing to remember is it's not about balance; it's about integration... to really focus on making sure you're integrating all four aspects of your work, your family, your community and yourself. And it's not about trying to spend equal amounts of time on everything you do each day on each of these things, but making sure you're paying attention to all the things that make it up as a whole human being.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Focus, Community, Balance

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• Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

  A. S. Byatt

  Mind, Attention, Belief

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• Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

  Andre Gide

  Dwelling Place, Perfect, Attention

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, "Characters," p. 299, 1964.

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• You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

  Tracy Chapman

  Differences, Trying, Attention

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• Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Citizens

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Attention, Awareness, Capacity

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• Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Becoming Better, Focus, Attention

  "Mindfulness In the Modern World: An Interview With Jon Kabat-Zinn". Interview with Stephan Rechtschaffen, eomega.org. February 24, 2012.

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• Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

  John Green

  Writing, Bored, Attention

  "Evening Of Awesome: John Green At Carnegie Hall" by Zoë Triska, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Trying, Negative

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• We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Music, School, Two

  "Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 1990.

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• And yet, in a superficial sense, it is true that the camera does not "lie": given a chance, it will faithfully render everything within the field of view of the lens and show it precisely as it is.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Views, Attention

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• The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally. Fortunately, it's not too difficult; it just takes some practice.

  Shakti Gawain

  Practice, Intuition, Desire

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• When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Home, Intelligent

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Sep 21, 2016

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• For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fall, Old Habits, Mad

  "Handbook for the Soul". Book edited by Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, 1995.

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• Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.

  Nancy Kress

  Eye, Writing, Thinking

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• ... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.

  Diane Sawyer

  Love, Attention, Pay

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• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Art, Moving, People

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• You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

  Dane Cook

  Laughing, Attention, Crowds

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• Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Culture

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