"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.'"
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"Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free."
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"I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?"
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"To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others."
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"There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work."
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"People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window."
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"Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?"
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"We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention."
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"I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think."
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"If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life."
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"Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention."
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"When it's colder, your skin needs more attention."
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"For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication."
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"It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention."
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"Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say."
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"At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!"
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"I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to."
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"I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff."
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"Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action."
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"The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own."
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