“I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.” ThinkingSchoolPayAttentionPay AttentionCharterSchool SystemCharter Schools Author:Barack Obama
“We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsLongI CanEnoughPlayStuffPayBehindsAttentionAudienceMagicStyleFiguresScenePay AttentionUp And DownRobesBehind The ScenesCharlatans Author:Al Pacino
“I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.” TryingPayAttentionStudentsListeningImportancePay AttentionImpress Author:Nikki Giovanni
“I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the prayer in Arabic and I don't understand a word of Arabic but I just remember these tears just coming down my face and it just really connecting to my spirit in a way that felt like I needed to pay attention to that.” WayRememberFacesSpiritStrongFeltPrayerPayAttentionWifeTearsNeededMy WifeReactionsPay AttentionGroundedConnectingDecemberPhiladelphiaMosques Author:Mahershala Ali
“All that means to me is that people who have a vision of a better world have a responsibility to open their eyes, to pay attention, to act on what the moment demands, and to be humble about that action.” PeopleWorldMeanMomentsEyeActionPayAttentionResponsibilityVisionDemandHumblePay AttentionBe Humble Author:Bill Ayers
“I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.” IfsWellsTwoCharacterCarePayAttentionFemaleAspectScriptsTake CarePay AttentionFemale Characters Author:Karla Souza
“I always had a Twitter account. I always had an Instagram account. I was always active on it, always spoke my mind. To me, it's really weird that I got so many followers and people that pay attention the way they do. It's hilarious, actually, because people didn't used to listen to me at all. I used to be like, "Does anybody hear me talkin'?"” PeopleWayMindDoeUsedPayAttentionAccountsActiveUsed To BePay AttentionSpokesFollowersInstagramListen To MeReally Weird Author:Leslie Jones
“The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.” RealMomentsAttentionTaughtBuddhistPay AttentionReal Buddhist Author:Sandra Cisneros
“My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.” IfsTwoStatesBodyEyeFacesUsedThreeEnergySidesPayAttentionSawsSadnessFellowsPrisonTinyBarsCrueltyUsed To BePay AttentionStaringMonkeysElephantsTigersCagesHopelessnessClownPerilCircusMichiganCementChainedShrinesGrabbingPacingWarehouseStepfathersSwayingMichigan State Author:Gary Yourofsky
“In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksMayReasonWholeLeftPayAttentionRepublicanDegreesNewsSmartIntelligentDemocratPopulationBunchPay AttentionIdiotVotersDisagreeFoxesExaggerationFox NewsThinkable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Burma is located between China, India, and South East Asia. So it is quite natural that a country wanting diplomatic relations with our country would pay attention to who our regional neighbors are. It is not at all fair to ask a country to build relations with Burma but not take into account the situation in China. There is no way to think that taking the Chinese situation into consideration shows a disregard for Burma.” ThinkingWayCountryShowsAsksNaturalPayAttentionSituationFairsAccountsIndiaRelationSouthChinaEastNeighborOur CountryChinesePay AttentionConsiderationAsiaDisregardDiplomaticBurmaEast AsiaDiplomatic Relations Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.” IfsNationsPayAttentionHalfViolencePolicyConnectionsCaringContemporaryPay AttentionLegislatureSwedenBetter FutureNorwayFinland Author:Riane Eisler
“Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.” PeopleWellsStillsAgeSocialSidesChallengesPayAttentionTheoryCapableCapitalismMeetingsWestCaringScalesSocialismPostsPay AttentionDominationUnprecedented Author:Riane Eisler
“I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.” ThinkingHumansHuman BeingsPerfectPayAttentionGrantedPay AttentionDifferentiate Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?” IfsPayAttentionRolesConcernedPay AttentionPiracy Author:Noam Chomsky
“My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.” My OwnPayAttentionInformationInstinctIntuitionPay Attention Author:Colin Powell
“We are starting to see what may be signs of continuing [Russian] influence in our country. Not just during the campaign but during the [Donald Trump] administration, basically signs of what could be a continuing operation. And those two things together are worth paying attention to.” MayTwoCountryTogetherAttentionInfluenceTrumpStartingCampaignsOur CountryAdministrationPay AttentionOperationsTwo ThingsContinuing Author:Rachel Maddow
“Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” WorldWantPayAttentionPlansArmsMarriedPay AttentionInstructionBridesAmazementPrecious LifeBridegroom Author:Mary Oliver
“There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections.” KindDoneHappensRunningPayAttentionHappenedTeamSecurityElectionFolksVariousPay AttentionDepartmentReportsAlliesAnticipateHomelandNatoHomeland SecurityAssessingDepartment Of Homeland Security Author:Barack Obama
“I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.” ThinkingShouldSaidDecisionAttentionMistakeNeededOfficeShould HaveIraqFocusedPay AttentionAfghanistanMomentumTalibanRight Decision Author:Barack Obama
“The media really only pays attention to white people. I think America is really racist.” PeopleThinkingAmericaWhitePayAttentionMediaPay AttentionRacist Author:Jeffree Star
“My worry is that the world is becoming more chaotic every day. My excitement is that more people paying attention to 'Less but better' could help solve our growing problems.” PeopleWorldHelpingProblemAttentionWorryGrowingBecomingSolvePay AttentionExcitementChaoticBecoming More Author:Dieter Rams
“I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.” WorldRealGamesRealizingPayAttentionJudgingBalanceWeightPay AttentionPointless Author:Amandla Stenberg
“People in New York just go about their business. Maybe living there for a long time, it would get lonely, but there's something really nice about being able to go about your business and not feel like anybody is really paying attention to you or what you're doing.” PeopleFeelsLongAbleAttentionNiceNew YorkLong TimeLonelyPay AttentionReally Nice Author:Ellar Coltrane
“When you are dealing with a mass movement, as opposed to a quote-unquote "elite," you are talking to people who don't have time to read long research papers. You have to communicate with them in sound bites, around every other thing they are doing. So it takes a long time to shift people from one message to the next, especially if your foundational narrative was, "The only one thing in the entire world you should be paying attention to is Darfur."” PeopleIfsWorldShouldLongNextSoundAttentionTalkingOne ThingMovementPaperMessagesMassLong TimeResearchCommunicatePay AttentionNarrativeBitesElitesPapersSound BitesDarfur Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“Being thankful helps you to be present.People commit errors because they are not present.I would encourage women and men to be present - you'll avoid falling into certain pits.For instance, if you know that a person has just lost his wife or her husband or lover, it's unlikely that you will say something that will hurt that person's feelings if you're truly paying attention. You'll make a sweeter life for yourself and for those around you if you are present.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenPersonsHelpingFeelingsCertainFallLostHurtAttentionWifeLoversHusbandMen And WomenErrorsCommitInstancePay AttentionUnlikelyBeing ThankfulPits Author:Maya Angelou
“I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my "liberal sins" because I paid attention to the home front.” PeopleHomeSinSecretAttentionHard WorkForgivingPay AttentionForgive Me Author:Tom Harkin
“Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.” AttentionSuccessfulEgoWork OutPay AttentionBeing Successful Author:Clint Eastwood
“Hip-hop is youthful. The youth determines which direction it's gonna go. I think your thoughts and your visions starts to change, and you start to pay attention to things, as far as the world goes, a little bit later on in life.” ThinkingWorldAttentionVisionYouthDeterminePay Attention Author:Lloyd Banks
“Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes I feel hesitant in the midst of other architects. I can't help thinking that they know more than I do, but I also feel that maybe I can go in directions they learned you're not supposed to go in.” ThinkingSometimesHelpingAttentionDisciplineGrantedPay AttentionArchitect Author:Vito Acconci
“The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because Congress took the land from the tribes, ignores their sacred connections to it, their cultural connections and does whatever it wants with it. Congress terminated tribal status for more than 100 tribes. Basically said, you're not a tribe anymore and we're not going to pay attention to the treaties. The Supreme Court has held that when Congress breaches a treaty with an Indian tribe it's not judicially reviewable. It's called a political question.” PoliticalAttentionPay AttentionSupreme Court Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“This book, 'Free bird', is so entangled with politics. I wanted to channel my own internal political monologue in some way to get it out of my brain. I'm not happy that the themes of the book have become more relevant as the publication date nears. Most of it was written in 2014 or so, before the whole Donald Trump thing began. As people paying attention know, the rise of Trump and Trumpism is not an aberration or sudden kind of phenomena.” PeopleKindBookPoliticalAttentionBrainPay AttentionRelevantNot Happy Author:Jonathan Raymond
“Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who's not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can't from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!” PeopleChildrenImportantSometimesOpportunityIndividualParentAttentionSonDadUniqueIncrediblesPay AttentionMy SonMumGrandparentMy Best FriendMum And Dad Author:Liv Tyler
“We have to pay attention to one another, regardless of how someone may look or act, look again. Looking at people is like looking at art. I may look at a painting and dislike it because I don't understand it but then I'll look deeper and I'll see things better.” PeopleArtAttentionPaintingPay AttentionDislike Author:Leah Chase
“This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's never easy to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.” WritingEasyAttentionPay Attention Author:Adam Morris
“Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.” ArtistUniverseAttentionPay AttentionAweAmazedMusic IndustryParallel Universe Author:Caroline Polachek
“I think that we can learn so much if we pay attention to our dreams, whether when we are asleep or in waking dreams. There are connections that are absolutely incredible.” ThinkingDreamAttentionIncrediblesPay Attention Author:Gale Anne Hurd
“Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. Surrendered people understand that they can't always change a situation, especially when the door is shut. They don't try to force it open. Instead, they pay attention to their own behavior, look at the situation at hand, and find a new, different, and creative way to get beyond the obstacles.” PeopleTryingDifferentAttentionSituationCreativeBehaviorObstaclesPay AttentionFreakStressedControl FreakStressed Out Author:Judith Orloff
“The real value in everything you do is in the details. I just like that quote. A very similar way to say the same thing. If you're washing dishes you pay attention to washing dishes. If you're driving a car, you're paying attention to driving the car.” RealValuesAttentionCarDrivingPay Attention Author:Phil Jackson
“Everybody thought that Hillary Clinton was gonna win. That's the problem. Everybody thought, nobody was paying attention.” ProblemWinningAttentionClintonPay Attention Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting down one day and writing one. You have to learn how to captivate a reader. Right? And I don't mean you have to go to school for it. But if you're - if you pay attention, you can learn it by reading books. And so I feel like I learned a lot by reading books.” WritingMeanBookSchoolReadingAttentionOne DayPay AttentionReading Books Author:David Sedaris
“I just really care about what people see. I want them to know that I'm working hard for this. The artists that I look up to like, you know, Michael, Prince, James Brown. You watch them and you understand that they're paying attention to the details of their art. And they care so much about what they're wearing, about how they're moving, about how they're making the audience feel. They're not phoning it in. They're going up there to murder anybody that performs after them or performs before them. That's what I've watched my whole life and admired.” PeopleArtCareMovingArtistAttentionAudienceLike YouMurderWhole LifePay AttentionLook Up Author:Bruno Mars
“The Confucians paid a great deal attention to ritual, highlighting the ones that expressed the sorts of affective attitudes one wants to cultivate, engaging in them with keen awareness of their value for shaping and reshaping the self, and insisting on the need to be emotionally present to their significance for one's relationship to others. If we Americans want to rebuild our capacities for a shared life, we would do well to pay attention to all this.” ValuesAttentionAttitudeAwarenessPay AttentionSignificanceRitual Author:David Wong
“It may not be fair, but it's true that in politics - in TV broadcasting, in any public figure - people pay attention to your appearances. One of the things we were all talking about was Al Gore won't be running for president unless we see that he's losing weight. Americans usually elect a taller man president.” PeopleMenRunningPresidentAttentionLosingAppearancePay Attention Author:Tony Blankley
“The fact is that we do pay attention. I think that it's unfortunately the case, whether you're a man or woman and you're running for president you need to look as good as you can look.” ThinkingMenRunningPresidentAttentionPay Attention Author:Tony Blankley
“I think climate change is probably the most extreme, and it's been going on for years because it's very difficult to talk about a planetary issue like climate change and to get people who live within four-year electoral cycles to actually pay attention to something that you predict is happening way in the future.” PeopleThinkingDifficultAttentionClimate ChangePay Attention Author:Gina McCarthy
“There's a secret government out here. It's been functioning since the beginning of time, and their whole job is population control. A lot of it is racist, so their target black people and minorities. People need to watch out for that, pay attention to how they're tryin' to change laws, and they're tryin' to control the world. They don't want just America or Europe any more; they want the entire globe.” PeopleWorldBlackSecretAttentionPay AttentionRacistBlack People Author:Prodigy
“Putin is now nationalist. And what he does is, he tells the Russian people, OK, you may have a little less chicken in your pot, but I'm making Russia great again. Look what we're doing all other the world. Everyone is paying attention to us. And Russia is a great power, on par with the United States and others.” PeopleWorldAttentionPay AttentionPotGreat Power Author:Michael McFaul
“It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime and by their supporters in Iran and in Russia.” WarPresidentAttentionCrimeCommittedWelcomePay AttentionSupporter Author:Kori Schake
“If we are paying attention to something, it's important. That's how we decide to pay attention. But a communicator can reroute our attention to something that isn't important, but make it seem important as a consequence.” ImportantAttentionConsequencePay Attention Author:Robert Cialdini