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The fact is, you will never reach your optimum health without paying attention to the spiritual dimensions of your life. — Rick Warren

Art is about paying attention. — Laurie Anderson

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. — Aldous Huxley

Fake flattery or not, his words spiked my system with happy. Behold, the power of a guy paying attention to a girl. — Jenny B. Jones

Everything that ever happens to you only happens once, so you better never stop paying attention. — Jessie Ann Foley

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. — Tom Peters

Most men are not alert, not paying attention, and not watching out for their families as God commands them to. — James MacDonald

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions. — W. H. Auden

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance. — Daniel Goleman

The world is far less random than it appears. Once you started paying attention, patterns emerged where before you only saw chaos. — Anna Jarzab

If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world. — Pete Wentz

That's life. Always something, more good than bad, but always interesting if you're paying attention. — Dean Koontz

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 wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal. — Tom Shadyac

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. — Nana Mouskouri

If you think I don't spend a good percentage of every day trying to figure you out, you're not paying attention. — Sylvia Day

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. — Timothy Noah

I swear I've spent half my life hiding behind a couch and the other half wondering why no one was paying attention to me. On — Sarah Hepola

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention. — Michael Chabon

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention. — Matt Groening

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. — Diane Sawyer

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them. — Tawni O'Dell

I gave in to the idea of paying attention to what you like and letting it help you make better stuff. — Lia Ices

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. — John Green

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention. — Denis Leary

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. — Bob Balaban

Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us. — Sharon Salzberg

By the way, in case you weren't paying attention or something, did you catch what Mr. Powell called me? "Young artist." I bet you missed that. — Gary D. Schmidt

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. — Berkeley Breathed

Experience means nothing unless you're paying attention. — Stephen Smoke

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening. — Reid Scott

I'm on the other end of the spectrum from oblivious, whatever that's called. Extreme noticing, perhaps? Severe and chronic attention-paying? — Charlotte Stein

Humans don't make sense."
"If you're only now learning that," Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention. — Brandon Sanderson

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied. — Jack McDevitt

Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention. — Nancy Atherton

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention. — Guy Spier

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others. — Gabrielle Bernstein

If you're not pissed off with the World, you're just not paying attention. — Kasey Chambers

You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention. — Chris Cleave

The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention. — Margaret Sartor

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

You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention. — Joe Mantegna

You see? You're not paying close enough attention. Theseus fought for his life," He shook his head. "But the minotaur, he fought for Ariadne. — Sarah MacLean

When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible. — Alan Grayson

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four. — Anne Lamott

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

He had decided that what was going on was that everybody was very carefully avoiding paying attention to what was going on. — Robert Anton Wilson

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention. — Frederick Buechner

I'll expect you and your ... guy friend in the front row. Paying very close attention."
"Wow," I say. "What will you ever do if I get a boyfriend? — Suzanne Young

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. — David Whyte

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

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

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes. — Erin McKean

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face. — Jeremy Paxman

I never set out to write songs about the world around me ... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things. — Iris Dement

I'm not flirting. I'm just paying extra attention to someone who's very attractive. — Kristen Proby

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions. — Biz Stone

At different times in our journeys, if we're paying attention, we get to sing the song we're meant to sing in the perfect key of life. — Oprah Winfrey

Are you engaged? Are you paying attention? — Brene Brown

If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention. — James Lileks

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

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

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

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 I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film. — Terry Zwigoff

I was always working; it's just that no one was paying attention. — Thora Birch

If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them. — Douglas Wilson

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

My fault. I should've been paying closer attention." She was paying attention now. — Gerri Russell

If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention. — Chuck Palahniuk

If you believe in coincidence, then you aren't paying attention. — David Life

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention. — Simon Sinek

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. — Bell Hooks

What we say to each other-even when it's anonymous, even when we think no one is paying attention, even when it's online-matters. Words have meaning. — Justine Ezarik

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

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention. — Charlie Huston

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. — Christopher Paolini

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention. — Howie Carr

...if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto. — Tom Robbins

As human beings, we haven't lost our intuition; we just stopped paying attention — Heidi DuPree

The mind is a strange thing: it works in secret. Oftentimes the most important decisions in life are made while you're not paying attention. — Nikolai Grozni

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford

Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention. — Steven Redhead

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention? — Joshua Foer

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention, — Eileen Wilks

an exercise in the art of paying attention, and paying attention, Ferguson discovered, was the first step in learning how to be alive. — Paul Auster

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. — Tom Peters

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention. — Philip Toshio Sudo

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention. — Miles Davis

You'll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money. — Austin Kleon

The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street. — Dave Brat

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! — Nanci Griffith

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice. — Matthew Perry

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention. — Estelle

No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception. — Lisa Scottoline

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. — David Foster Wallace

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more. — Natasha Hamilton

When authors write a predominantly white cast, it reflects who they're paying attention to in life. — Kira Hawke

But if you think there's a man anywhere who can make me do anything I don't want to do, you haven't been paying attention. — Rachel Bach