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All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.~ Robert Redford
A lot of what acting is paying attention.~ Nancy Reagan
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew Carnegie
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.~ Andy Warhol
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.~ William John Bennett
I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.~ Susan Sontag
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.~ Samuel Butler
If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.~ Tom Peters
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.~ Susan M. Dodd
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.~ John Holt
Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.~ Antisthenes
Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them…as you make the effort.~ Og Mandino
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been created in honor of a critic.~ Jean Sibelius
People don’t pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.~ Florence Griffith-Joyner
People will teach you how to sell them if you’ll pay attention to the messages they send you.~ Author Unknown
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.~ Deepak Chopra
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.~ Philip Crosby
The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.~ Author Unnown
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.~ Thomas J. Peters
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself… ~ W. H. Auden
You can’t pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it’s… very important to ignore the negative.~ Jerry Rubin
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.~ Paulo Coelho
You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond