"Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak."
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"I know there's always going to be feedback no matter what the subject. I am shocked by somebody commenting on my shoes or my clothes. Everyone has an opinion, everyone is logging about everything and has an opinion. So I can't possibly pay attention to that."
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"I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated."
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"We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves."
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"The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune."
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"Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them."
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"It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be."
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"People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority."
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"The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not."
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"Life is a never ending miracle unfolding in every moment, and if we turn our attention to that silent presence in our heart, we can participate in that miracle."
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"The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment."
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"The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention."
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"Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now."
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"Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me."
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"We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives."
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"Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind."
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"I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest."
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"When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in."
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"Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both."
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"Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him."
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