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“The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.”

Knows Done Guy Lost Attention Restaurants Good Friend Craziest

Author:Rachel McAdams

“It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention.”

Giving Lost Easy Attention Baby Husband Easy To Get Your Husband

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.”

May Ends Lost Attention Compassion Mass Draws Seeking Treated Manipulation Distress Distribution Spectrum Blanket Decrease Pseudo Manipulative Attention Seeking

Author:Anthony Daniels

“Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.”

Ifs Mean Stills Lost Attention Silence Talking Audience Quiet Okay Pay Attention Bombs

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“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

“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

“When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.”

Mind Two Action Lost Attention Pay Attention Sync

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention.”

Thinking Way Feels Facts Helping Remember Spiritual Lost Pay Attention Practice Path Teaching Various Technique Pay Attention Confused Spiritual Practice Esoteric Terminology

Author:Rick Fields

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short; they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.”

People Ifs Feels Would Be Lost Easy Attention Trends Museums Gallery Easy To Get Attention Span

Author:Kalup Linzy

“Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.”

People Country Used Lost Community Attention Leader Blow Technique Contact Twins Towers Bin Laden Madmen Interrogation Intelligence Community Twin Towers Interrogation Techniques

Book:The Devil's Light: A Novel

Source: The Devil's Light: A Novel