“You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksUsedLyingAsksPartyAttentionUsed To BePay AttentionDepressingIgnored Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“To be honest with you, I'm not sure what a pop tune is. I'm sure if I hear it on the radio, I'd say that's pop or this or that. But, really, what I pay attention to the most is just music that moves me. It's all at least a root-type music instead of a formula.” IfsMovingPayAttentionHonestTypeRootsRadioPopsBeing HonestPay AttentionNot SureTunesFormulas Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Look at me as an example. I don't have the best education or the best looks. Where I'm from in Nigeria is not entertainment driven, it's the northern part of Nigeria and over there they hardly pay attention to entertainment. I came out of that place to attain this level of success. I always say if I can get here with all of these imperfections then no one has the excuse to fail in life.” IfsLooksI CanLevelsPayAttentionFailingExampleEntertainmentExcuseDrivenPay AttentionImperfectionLook At MeNigeriaBest Education Author:Ice Prince
“You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.” IfsPersonsBookWholeEyeLosesAttentionFictionIgnoranceReaderScience FictionPay AttentionEngineersSpoilBlinkChemistAnthropologistsBlink Of An Eye Author:Robert Caro
“To develop intuition, one of the things you can do is pay attention to what you eat. Eat as clean a diet as you can. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables without preservatives, without alcohol, caffeine, dyes, and organically grown if possible. But do what is comfortable for your. Don't try to shift into a lifestyle that doesn't fit, but be aware that the lighter you eat the lighter you will feel.” IfsFeelsTryingCan DoPayAttentionFitComfortableCleanFruitIntuitionAlcoholLifestylePay AttentionDietsVegetablesLightersCaffeineFruits And Vegetables Author:Gary Zukav
“I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.” I CanPayAttentionFlyingLuxuryPay AttentionAirplane Author:Arnold Palmer
“I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.” IfsYearsWellsLooksLongBigsSeemsJoyTermPayAttentionFiveGenerationsSadnessFansCenturyLessonsLong TimeDecadesPay AttentionJoy And Sadness Author:Nikki Giovanni
“[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.” ImportantMightNextPayAttentionPoetImportant ThingsAddPay AttentionBoredBeing Bored Author:Nikki Giovanni
“In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.” PeopleKnowsImportantRealEndsHardKidsThreeGoalTermRealizingPayAttentionHard WorkImportant ThingsRaisedPay AttentionAccomplishment Author:George Lucas
“I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.” TryingLongRealizingPerfectPayAttentionPracticeHeyPay Attention Author:Lauryn Hill
“Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.” WritingBelieveBookPassionI BelievePayAttentionTalentKeysDon't BelieveStartingI Believe InPay AttentionFinishing Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.” StuffPayAttentionFocusMessagesDrawsHundredPay AttentionBoardsAffectedCommentNegativityWrecks Author:Joan Jett
“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.” GivingMindHeartArtWholeMomentsSufferingSpiritualityAttentionPracticeWorryHealthyConflictEssentialsSingingConsciousTasksBreathsPay AttentionThat MomentHeart And MindHealthy Life Author:Jason Mraz
“Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.” SongAttentionMeditationEffectsStyleWalkingSingingYogaSittingFlowPerformancesProfoundTraditionalPay AttentionGardeningSurfingDoing NothingWalking Meditation Author:Jason Mraz
“It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.” WantPayAttentionFocusAreasSizePay AttentionDesigner Author:Tim Gunn
“But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.” PeopleEnoughShowsPowerfulPayAttentionEffectsMediaPhotographyMassOvercomingPhotographerPay AttentionIndifferenceShakesProtestReach OutMass Media Author:James Nachtwey
“When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.” PeopleAnimalPayAttentionPay Attention Author:Betty White
“When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.” YearsChildrenLittlesEndsHardYoungNumbersPayAttentionHavensCookingDinnerCooksPay AttentionMy ChildrenThe End Of The DayHomework Author:Meryl Streep
“To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.” IfsNeedsFeelsHumansDoeTwoDoneSinSimpleAttentionMistakeFiveCallingMathematicsGuiltErrorsCommittedFoolishCommitGuiltyPay AttentionPlusHomeworkSimple ThingsUnprepared Author:Rajneesh
“Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you'll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun.” SelfLightSimplePayAttentionSunPurePay AttentionRealmsOne Love Author:Deepak Chopra
“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.” PeopleWorldNeedsStillsBookCharacterStrongDifferencesPayAttentionMoralInternetResearchMeaningfulMagazinesPay AttentionContributionOur WorldMoral Character Author:Zig Ziglar
“Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.” MenShouldUsePayAttentionAppearancePay AttentionCosmetics Author:Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
“People who get implants, it's so depressing, you know... People - I don't know. The route of that, you know, maybe they want more love or attention, or what it is, but they always go for the most obvious place, you know? Here... Well if you really want more attention, why not get them in your eyes? And then move your eyes down to where your nipples used to be, put your breasts up on your head, everybody will pay attention!” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWellsHumorEyeFunnyMovingUsedPayAttentionObviousUsed To BePay AttentionBreastsWhy NotDepressingRoutesImplantsNipples Author:Dylan Moran
“People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.” PeopleCharacterPayAttentionOpinionStruggleDemandPay AttentionFascinatedJustification Author:Martin Walser
“So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.” PeopleIfsWantHardCulturePayAttentionFocusHard WorkDetailsCustomersPay AttentionDo It YourselfFrugalAttention To Detail Author:Sam Altman
“If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What matters is what's unfolding on the screen, not how you put it there. It doesn't matter if it's red triangles or million dollar software if the audience doesn't care.” IfsMeanMadeMatterStoriesCareFilmAttentionMillionsAudienceRedDollarsScreensPay AttentionSoftwareWhat MattersMillion DollarsUnfoldingTriangles Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.” IfsWantLanguageGrowsPayAttentionPracticePoetSentencesPay AttentionProseImpatientCadence Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsFeelsFeelingsReadingLanguagePayAttentionPay AttentionHow You FeelWorth Reading Author:David Starkey
“You can't be positive to everybody. A lot of people want to focus on flaws and negativity, especially on the Internet because that's their only voice. I don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. I pay attention to opportunities coming my way, gays and lesbians telling me what I've done for them, organizations in my community that always want to work with me.” PeopleWayWantKindDoneOpportunityStuffVoiceCommunityPayAttentionFocusInternetGayOrganizationMy WayPay AttentionFlawsNegativityBeing Positive Author:Jackie Warner
“Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.” PeopleHandsAttentionPositionPatternsPostsPay AttentionOpponentsAggressiveBetting Author:Daniel Negreanu
“The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.” NeedsOrderPayAttentionFictionPay AttentionProse Author:James Kelman
“Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.” WorldWayAttentionSticksPay AttentionPoetry IsAnxiousJust Being Author:Mike Young
“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.” PeopleWantFeelsRealPayAttentionFictionPay AttentionMake Sense Author:Nick Earls
“I have the best fans. I know every artist says that but I really do. I love my fans for how much they know about me, how much they learn about me, and how much they really pay attention.” KnowsArtistPayAttentionFansPay Attention Author:Jay Sean
“I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.” DonePainLeftPayAttentionRecordsLet MeMadnessMethodRapPay AttentionGagaT Pain Author:Wale
“I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayKindStillsDifferentBigsCertainDifferencesPayAttentionObjectsListeningHandleTreatedCommandPsychologicalPay AttentionDifferent WaysExpensiveTransitionFragileReverenceCdsFormatStanceVinyl Author:Brian Eno
“In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.” NeedsKindChildrenIdeasHelpingEffortPayAttentionTeacherProjectsPay AttentionInteractionCooperativesCooperative Learning Author:Lilian Katz
“One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.” PeopleMadeProblemPayAttentionRecordsMusicianAssumingStudiosMade ItPay AttentionRemove Author:Moby
“That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.” IfsWritingHardJobsCan DoInterestingPayAttentionHard WorkLateIgnorantPay AttentionGood JobInteresting Things Author:Lydia Davis
“No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.” IndividualAttentionInfluenceMoralityFunctionPay AttentionFeaturesParticipants Author:George Soros
“I try to pick music for a diner that doesnt involve a lot of lyrics, so you're not paying attention to that. As long as it doesnt dominate the party, it should be more atmosphere music. When I'm by myself, I never play music.” ShouldTryingLongPlayPartyAttentionPicksPay AttentionAtmosphereDiners Author:Amy Sedaris
“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.” KnowsWayNeedsGivingMeanDifferentPayAttentionTalentColorSizePay AttentionDifferent WaysComplimentDifferent Colors Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.” WayWritingHeartMeanMatterHardOrderProcessAttentionTeachTaughtPoetHard WorkBearsDisciplineFruitMessPay AttentionScratchesEraseWrong WayBlurMatters Of The Heart Author:Kathleen Norris
“Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.” IfsWayDoeWholeProcessAttentionBreakMachinesPaidDialoguePay AttentionRanEngagedOur ThoughtsBreaking DownThought Process Author:David Bohm
“How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.” MomentsCharacterPayAttentionQualityOur LivesPay AttentionPresent Moment Author:Sam Harris
“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.” PeopleYearsFirstsLittlesMadeSaidValuesAttentionOpinionRichFocusGroupsMediaPolicyOfficeSixPressesBritishScalesPay AttentionJournalistPhrasesLogicalConsideringConsistencyPollsWhimHacksBlairCondemningPoodlesOpinion PollsFocus Groups Author:Larry King
“We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.” WellsSoulPainJoyGriefAttentionAwarenessSorrowLaughterSillyPay AttentionFrighteningExpandingEnlighteningSoul Work Author:Matthew Fox
“The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.” AttentionHalfMillionsVoteCourtSupremePay AttentionSupreme CourtGoreTurning PointsCoups Author:Marc Edwards
“I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.” ThinkingLittlesWinningAttentionGoldBaseballPay AttentionLeagueLittle LeagueLittle League Baseball Author:Dan O'Brien
“Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.” ProblemReadingGamesAttentionSituationManagementDetailsPay AttentionAccomplishedStayingReactingAttention To Detail Author:Jim Evans