Pay Attention Quotes

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

If you really pay attention to me, I'm not the most serious person.

Geniuses never pay attention.

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.

If you feel lonely within your relationship, pay attention to this inner warning signal!

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.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

It's important for people to try and be more like Marco Polo in how he explored the world, very few of us nowadays pay attention to cultures and try to understand them.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within the realm of being psychologically and emotionally true.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

Pay attention to your body. Is this the only place where they should live.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'