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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.


Susan Sontag

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
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KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN What catches your attention can change day to day.
But what catches your attention day after d...
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN If you don't pay attention, you do so at your own peril.
JAMES WAGNER This is not about avoiding fish. It is about paying attention to the types and amount of fish you ea...
DAVID ACHESON You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to...
ZAKK WYLDE Life is like a car on the road. Pay too much attention to what is ahead of you, not what is behind y...
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ANN MARIE AGUILAR You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.
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DANIEL KAHNEMAN When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor...
DEYTH BANGER After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about ...
GEORGE CLOONEY You take it, you understand it, you learn from it and you pay attention to your own show.
JUDY MENDENHALL You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell...
SUZE ORMAN It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you,
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WHITNEY SCOTT Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations aga...
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SHAWN JOHNSON The whole program requires people to pay a lot of attention, so much attention that many are not goi...
JUDITH STEIN Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about ...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTT Why is patience so important?"
"Because it makes us pay attention.
PAULO COELHO If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation
RENAE A. SAUTER If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
TOM PETERS Actually, I'm not sure we're paying attention to that. I'm just paying attention to doing whatever i...
ERIK COLE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY Pay attention to whatever you say because a knot tied with your tongue can’t be undone with your t...
VIKRANT PARSAI Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations...
JAMES COOK The more attention you pay to your surroundings, the safer you are going to be.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Mafia is paying attention. It is watching.
ANTONIO INGROIA I don't pay attention to what has happened, I just pay attention to what's going on now. Every time ...
ASHLEIGH COLE Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.
MICKEY DREXLER I think he did expand the number of people who were paying attention, and to pay attention in a diff...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
ANDY WARHOL If you have any questions for Jesus Christ it is only because you were not paying attention when he ...
FELIX WANTANG Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
JON KABAT-ZINN Pain is God's way of saying, 'are you paying attention?'
JAMES DOWLER GOW You do put pressure on yourself and your product because everybody is paying attention. Our challeng...
JAY KOLPON Pay attention and try to be patient, ... Use alternate routes or stay home as much as possible.
JAMES CAMPBELL When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your ...
RODOLFO COSTA Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM JOHN BENNETT Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less ...
SANAYA ROMAN The administration is not paying attention to the laws of biodiversity. It's paying far more attenti...
GLEN SPAIN You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to s...
DAISY FUENTES If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. Bu...
WILLIAM BENNETT It's funny, but when you're not paying attention and not looking for love is when it happens,
RAQUEL WELCH The more you pay attention to today, the less you worry about tomorrow.
SUPERNA BATHEJA I pay attention... When I'm PAID to pay attention.
THOMAS DIEBER Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
A. S. BYATT Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works f...
ANDREW WEIL It really is quite simple. All women really want is to be needed, valued and loved above anyone else...
SHANNON L. ALDER Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
ANDY WARHOL Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your no...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD This makes you forget the city is shut down. If you don't pay attention to the houses, you'd never k...
DINERRAL SHAVERS Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to i...
AZAR NAFISI Speaking with spiders and other things you call unusual... there's no special trick to it. When some...
HELEN OYEMEMI I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that aga...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS ...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
JOHN GEDDES You get to know the customers. It helps you pay attention to the trends.
CHERYLN BENNETT We must attach importance to food safety because it is concerning people's lives ... We have been pa...
ZENG QINGHONG They're paying attention to their problems. They are aware that when it comes to store-level executi...
RICHARD HASTINGS Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives ...
EDDIE VEDDER A hospital emergency room is a place where you can receive medical attention just as fast as you can...
VIKRANT PARSAI I think it really indicates how important it is that people pay attention to the lifeboat drill. Thi...
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JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you loo...
TINA FEY Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' ...
MERLE HAGGARD We haven't been paying attention to wins or losses. Our character is getting tougher. Conference pla...
HOLLY BROWN Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention and
cu...
RICHARD NELSON BOLLES You learn something every day if you pay attention.
RAY LEBLOND Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What a...
CENDRINE MARROUAT If you know your goal and you are convinced of it then it is impossible not to have people’s atten...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Pay attention to your inner voice.Don’t over ride it as it let you know who you are & knowing inne...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
TOM PETERS If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
JACK CARTER Focus on your big problems and pay attention to your small ones.
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SUSAN SONTAG It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...
SUSAN SONTAG One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...
SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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