"The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right."
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"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself."
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"Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."
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"Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already."
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"The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention."
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"If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it"
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"So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to."
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"The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith."
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"What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience"
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"People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is."
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"There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them."
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"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard."
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"God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created."
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"Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave."
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"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple."
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"Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it."
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"No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk."
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"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock."
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"The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all."
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"Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment."
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