Pay Attention Quotes

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

If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.

When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

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.

Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me, I'd stay home under the bed.

I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

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

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.

Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and you can become a more powerful communicator.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.

I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.'

I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence.

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It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.

I began to pay attention to Scripture and meet people who walked the walk, and little by little, I guess you could call me a born again Christian. 1978 is when I found my walk with the Lord.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

For the most part Ho Chi Minh City is safe but like any large city you need to pay attention to what's going on around you.

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

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 do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

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.

They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.