"I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me."
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"The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness."
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"Pay attention to your body. Is this the only place where they should live."
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"I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage."
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"The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny."
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"He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that."
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"Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce."
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"Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention."
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"Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot."
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"Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates."
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"I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out."
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"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself."
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"Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction."
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"Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards."
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"But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties."
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"Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world."
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"The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle."
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