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A lot of what acting is paying attention. -- Nancy Reagan
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. -- Tom Peters
When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible. -- Alan Grayson
Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention. -- Estelle
Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention. -- Matt Groening
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail. -- Peter Matthiessen
Art is about paying attention. -- Laurie Anderson
you have not been / paying attention -- Thom Yorke
There is ecstasy in paying attention. -- Anne Lamott
Writing is seeing. It is paying attention. -- Kate DiCamillo
Pay attention to what you're paying attention to. -- Howard Rheingold
You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention. -- Joe Mantegna
Experiences is just paying attention as time passes. -- Erin McKean
The act of paying attention contains tremendous power. -- Deepak Chopra
If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention. -- Mumia Abu-Jamal
Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. -- Susan M Dodd
A lot of what acting is is paying attention. -- Robert Redford
If you are bored, you are not paying attention. -- Frederick Salomon Perls
The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention -- Ruth Messinger
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention. -- Miles Davis
Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention. -- Tamora Pierce
If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention -- Lisa Borden
I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late. -- Carly Fiorina
Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. -- Timothy Noah
Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention. -- Michael Chabon
There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention? -- Yasmin Mogahed
I was always working; it's just that no one was paying attention. -- Thora Birch
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. -- Keanu Reeves
Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more. -- Natasha Hamilton
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. -- Susan Sontag
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. -- Mark Strand
We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention. -- Rick Warren
The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention. -- Thomas Jones
People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. -- David Foster Wallace
Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention. -- Simon Sinek
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. -- Pico Iyer
If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention. -- Kasey Chambers
Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention. -- Justin Hartley
A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain. -- Daniel Goleman
We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention. -- Frederick Buechner
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. -- Maureen Dowd
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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions. -- Biz Stone
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied. -- Jack McDevitt
If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention. -- Howie Carr
When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country. -- Hannah Kearney
Your ad begins as an interruption. Make paying attention to it feel like a reward -- Lee Clow
The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. -- Diane Sawyer
The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings. -- Laozi
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. -- J. C. Watts
Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening. -- Reid Scott
When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention. -- Guy Spier
Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs. -- A. S. Byatt
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. -- Daniel Goleman
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. -- Stephen Levine
I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was. -- Tom Brady
What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation. -- David Livermore
You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention. -- Suzanne Collins
There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton. And that's because they're paying attention. -- Mike Pence
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Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them. -- Ben Marcus
Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention. -- Nonito Donaire
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention. -- Charlie Huston
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. -- Diane Sawyer
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... -- John J. Geddes
Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention! -- Rob Lowe
When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in. -- Brene Brown
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by -- Blaine Hogan
You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them. -- Bob Lefsetz
To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in. -- Brene Brown
The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention. -- Kelly McGonigal
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When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away. -- Katie Holmes
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. -- David Whyte
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. -- John Green
The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you. -- Bonnie Raitt
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. -- Nana Mouskouri
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. -- Matthew Perry
Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention. -- Kevin Peter Hall
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. -- Julia Cameron
You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion. -- Aerin Lauder
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to. -- Robin Williams
If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film. -- Terry Zwigoff
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. -- bell hooks
Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time. -- Catherine Cardinal
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. -- Berkeley Breathed
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to. -- Daniel Kahneman
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas -- Charles Dickens
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it. -- Viggo Mortensen
If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention. -- James Lileks
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
There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention. -- Joan Rivers
I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention. -- Tucker Carlson
You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down. -- Linda Ronstadt
Sometimes when we're not paying attention, relation-ships happen. There is no rule that requires two people in love to be exactly alike. -- Lisa Kleypas
Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing. -- Doug Cooper
It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis. -- Antonio Banderas
I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. -- Greg Maddux
Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence. -- Nathaniel Branden
I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off. -- Tucker Max
I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair. -- Frank Miller
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to. -- George Carlin
It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention. -- E. B. White
There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life. -- Oprah Winfrey
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
I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.' -- John Benjamin Hickey
It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day. -- Ryan Lochte
If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters. -- David Macaulay
I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes. -- Lucy Punch
I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story. -- Kate DiCamillo
You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention. -- Cassandra Clare
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Brene Brown

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