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"I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves."
"All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite."
"This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention."
"there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture."
"It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience."
"There are two components to biological information in the body, one is intention, the other is attention."
"Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves."
"When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me."
"Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves."
"Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you."
"Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned."
"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
"Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see."
"There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention."
"The surface of things is not where attention should rest."
"If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention."
"Marketing is a contest for people's attention."
"Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself."
"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that."
"A lot of what acting is paying attention."
