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Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time -- Kevin Heath
One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them. -- Dale Carnegie
Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy. -- Jonathan Sacks
Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. -- Ron Silver
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. -- Joni Mitchell
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first. -- Dorothea Dix
The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention. -- Bob Graham
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. -- Eknath Easwaran
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read. -- Andrew Young
I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics. -- George Strait
A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention. -- Jennifer Morrison
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time. -- James Fenton
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. -- Anna Seward
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance. -- Susan Wiggs
We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts. -- Dada Vaswani
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time. -- Tommy Shaw
Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time. -- Chuck Inglish
We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore. -- Cynthia Nixon
People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying attention to how they sound. To our unconscious minds, however, voice is very important. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention. -- Howard Rheingold
It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. -- Paul Giamatti
When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them. -- Matthew McConaughey
Where your attention goes, your time goes -- Idowu Koyenikan
Experiences is just paying attention as time passes. -- Erin McKean
We lose our time because we lose our attention -- Jacob Needleman
If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist. -- Mircea Eliade
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. -- Pete Cashmore
Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention. -- Jesse James Garrett
Marriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively. -- Laura M. Brotherson
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. -- Frederick Busch
You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it. -- Eckhart Tolle
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time. -- Blackie Sherrod
Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention. -- Chelsea Cain
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern. -- Joel Osteen
The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention. -- Nicky Gumbel
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. -- Mark Kozelek
I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was. -- Tom Brady
Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite. -- Merlin Mann
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. -- E. F. Benson
Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention. -- Nonito Donaire
I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels. -- Alison Tyler
Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement. -- BrenÃ© Brown
You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust. -- Seth Godin
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. -- Horace Mann
Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them. -- June Stoyer
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. -- Molly Ivins
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. -- Nana Mouskouri
I'm never going to be like, 'Oh, this attention from women sucks.' It's flattering 99 percent of the time. -- Taylor Kitsch
The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God. -- Max Lucado
Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot. -- Hugh Laurie
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work. -- Seth Godin
In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource. -- Jakob Nielsen
If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention. -- Megan Hart
Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy. -- Deepak Chopra
And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders. -- Cassandra Clare
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep. -- Wilson Mizner
A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details. -- Cobi Jones
If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape. -- Suze Orman
Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time. -- Catherine Cardinal
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... -- Tyler Cowen
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. -- Arnold Bennett
My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time -- Cindy Crawford
Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame. -- Bob Dylan
My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say. -- Henry Rollins
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. -- Harper Lee
Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. -- Arnold Bennett
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world. -- Margaret Mead
My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention. -- Woody Allen
When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else. -- Mary Tyler Moore
For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid. -- Young Thug
Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time. -- Miep Gies
Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living. -- Wayne LaPierre
The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention. -- Ruth Reichl
Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways -- Ashley Purdy
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness. -- Robert Genn
It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another. -- Alexandra Adornetto
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
Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention. -- Charlotte Selver
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work. -- Nick Earls
By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights." -- Jon Kabat Zinn
Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your full attention into it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I spend the first half of my day dealing with Europe because of the time difference. Then in the evening my website gets my undivided attention. -- Olivia Palermo
Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. -- Colin Neenan
We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become. -- Wayne Muller
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. -- Tim Frick
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
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention. -- Terence Conran
Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean. -- John Caples
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside. -- Hanoi Hannah
The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time. -- Kiki Smith
They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead. -- Hillary Clinton
There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again. -- Sia Furler
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity. -- Anne Graham Lotz
This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds. -- Marni Jackson
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. -- Samuel Johnson
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. -- Pete Cashmore
He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time. -- Marcus Aurelius
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention. -- Robert Grudin
It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others, -- Eve Ensler
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. -- Linda Hogan
The next time you're planning to injure yourself to get my attention, just remeber that a little sweet talk works wonders." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland) -- Cassandra Clare
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. -- Philip Levine
The anticipation-speculation that comes with a weekly schedule is a double-edged sword. Because people have more time to talk about things, some crazy ideas get a lot of attention. -- Cary Fukunaga
Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone. -- Magda Gerber
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. -- Edward de Bono
The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother. -- Evel Knievel
Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself. -- Vimala McClure

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