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I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.
If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.
Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.
The best wrestling characters are an extension of your real-life personality, and I've always been a bit of an attention seeker.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.
Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.
I don't talk to the groupies. I talk to nice, upstanding women. The groupies don't get my attention. It's the women that I like.
Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.
You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.
I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
Apps or media who make money on advertising are never satisfied with 'enough' of your attention. They will always fight for more.
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.
The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.
I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.