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“I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...”

“What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.”

Giving Persons Soul Matter Attention What Matters Good Person Good Souls

Author:Sophia Bush

“Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.”

“We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.”

Thinking Giving Persons Self Attention Situation Our Lives Strength Caught Fixed Upset Self Centered

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“The greatest gift we give each other is the quality of our attention.”

Giving Attention Quality Greatest Gifts

Author:Richard Moss

“The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.”

Thinking Giving Feelings Grows Attention Negative Blow Proportion Negative Feelings

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.”

People Giving Names Attention Nasty

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.”

Thinking Giving Facts Church Religious Pay Attention Lord Too Much Ten Blessed Mary Apostles Heed Virgin Mary

Book:The World's First Love

Source: The World's First Love

“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.”

Giving Stills Happens Pleasure Attention Too Much Waste Concern Cameras Forests Something New Evaluate Tempo Motion Pictures Best American

Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

“Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.”

Giving Looks Long Enough Eye Pleasure Attention Millions Balance Benefits Forgotten Enterprise Reports Owners Quotations Sheets Shareholders Balance Sheets

Author:Benjamin Graham

“My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.”

Giving Young Attention Class Advice Investing Investors Devoted Earning Earnest Earning It

Author:Ivan Boesky

“Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.”

Thinking Giving Mind Attention Conscious

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.”

People Giving Ends Attention Higher Involved Cost Deserve Bases Back And Forth Switching

Author:Gary W. Keller

“I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.”

Giving Littles Bits Enjoy Pay Attention Little Bit Give Me Tunes Perks

Author:Earl Scruggs

“Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.”

Giving Important Attention Possession Currency

Author:Ben Parr

“Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.”

Giving Attention Plans Failing Amount Areas Average Cease

Author:Grant Cardone

“Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.”

Giving Attention Committed Bless

Book:The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

Source: The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Kind Persons I Can Done Moments Loses Attention Happened Dangerous Balance Drunk Wow Success In Life Detachment Great Person

Author:Robert Greene

“Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.”

Ifs Giving Feels Done Jobs Opportunity Given Attention Position Bases Down And Contribution Best Job

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.”

Men Want Giving Art Remember Attention Treats Not Sure Impress Format

Author:Garth Brooks

“If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.”

Ifs Giving Mind Self Feelings Form Attention Selfishness Arrogance Contracts Disgusting Renewal Avarice

Book:On Self and Social Organization

Source: On Self and Social Organization

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.”

Men Giving Mind Character Body Women Hours Views Attention Taught Shapes Prison Rounds Various Pursuit Opening Employment Triumph Cages Insignificant Confined Infancy Roaming

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.”

Giving Soul Prayer Attention Capable Careful

Author:Simone Weil

“The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .”

Giving Attention Paparazzi

Author:Zac Efron

“Simply put, the Law of Attraction states that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life.”

Ifs Giving States Law Energy Attention Focus Focused Attraction Law Of Attraction Stay Focused Positive Things

Author:Jack Canfield

“One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose”

Want Giving Purpose Attention Failing Exercise Gratitude Thanks Finding Yourself Halt Hurrying

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

“A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.”

Giving Attention History Special Museums Underwear Fetish

Author:Mason Cooley

“Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.”

Men Giving Wells Mean Character Together Grows Attention Company Fashion Habit Men And Women Paid Rough Ingredients Composition Careless Politeness Breeding Good Company Good Breeding

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.”

Ifs Giving Kind Littles Social Attention Creatures Give Me Fellows Faults Genuine Manners Endeavor Temper Defects Philanthropist Erring

Book:The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

“If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.”

Ifs Knows Love Giving Kind Together Dies Lost Attention Car Assuming Killing One You Love

Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“Give full attention and devotion to each act.”

Giving Attention Advice Devotion

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“You're always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you've got to make the best of it. You've got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can't keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you've got to reach for a different thought.”

Ifs Giving Different Body Perfect Attention Your Body Improvement Score Where You Are Our Relationship Continuing Self Development New Thought Vibrate Continuous Improvement Make The Best Of It

Author:Esther Hicks

“Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?”

Giving Looks Soul Matter Body Attention Regret Your Body Your Soul Someday Healthy Living Healthy Lifestyle Starvation Nourishment End Of Life

Book:Hope for Each Day Morning and Evening Devotions

Source: Hope for Each Day Morning and Evening Devotions

“There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.”

“Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).”

Ifs Needs Giving Years Littles Ends Force Space Levels Effort Attention Air Figures Needed Engines Reliance Rockets Unwilling Deadline Air Force

Author:John McCain

“Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.”

Way Giving Sometimes Attention Best Way

Author:Jeffree Star

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine. I'm sure sociologists can come up with distinctions about what's different between men and women, but for every example you can give about what a woman does, you can come up with an opposite example of other women who don't do that. Those are more artificial distinctions, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Doe Different Pay Attention Example Men And Women Opposites Come Up Honestly Pay Attention Distinction Feminine Artificial Masculine Sociologists

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Facts Pay Attention Fiction Novel Reader Moon Research Concern Blue Science Fiction Setting Settings Accurate Jupiter Blue Moon

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.”

Giving Persons Attention Treats Attention And Respect

Author:Hoodie Allen

“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.”

“I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with other things... They treat Me as a dead object.”

“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves.”

Needs Giving Helping Body Interest Attention Medical More Time Relays Personal Health Medical Help

Author:Andrew Saul

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”

“All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.”

Knows Way Needs Giving Mean Different Pay Attention Talent Color Size Pay Attention Different Ways Compliment Different Colors

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.”

Giving Heart Spirit Prayer Rooms Attention Teach Praying Draws Engaged Thank God Thankfulness

Author:Andy Murray

“Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.”

Giving Voice Attention Worry Advice Intuition Advertising Inner Voice Jingles

Author:Martha Beck

“If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.”

Ifs Giving May Ends Problem Able Individual Attention Communication Block Significance Something New Attending

Book:On Dialogue

Source: On Dialogue