Pay Attention Quotes

• In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

  

  Rick Santelli
  • Times
  • Markets
  • Pay Attention

• Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

  

  Ertharin Cousin
  • Needs
  • Serve
  • Global public

• I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Group
  • Separate
  • Pay Attention

• Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by.

  

  Blaine Hogan
  • Artist
  • Passing
  • Pay Attention

• Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging them with sound, particularly sound that stirs them emotionally because of the sequence of notes, will make them pay attention.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Sound

• It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Friends
  • Design
  • Listen

• When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Succeed
  • Fail
  • Pattern

• I hope they pay attention to the reasons that have been said, not in this forum but in many other forums in the world

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Reasons
  • I Hope
  • Pay Attention

• If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Revolution
  • Population
  • Rock Star

• I pay attention to every system of conventions and expectations, above all literary conventions and the expectations they generate in readers. But that law-abiding side of me, sooner or later, has to face my disobedient side. And, in the end, the latter always wins.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Readers
  • Wins
  • Conventions

• There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

  

  Eva Green
  • Actors
  • Singers
  • Pay Attention

• We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Voice
  • Safety
  • Pay Attention

• I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Think
  • Career
  • Pay Attention

• I try not to go crazy, but yes, I pay attention to what I eat.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Crazy
  • Pay Attention

• You've got to pay attention to what you're attracted to because as you hold images of what you want, you're gonna be attracted to things that are going to be attracted to you, but it literally moves into physical reality with and through you and it does that by law.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Images

• You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it's not something I pay attention to.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Expectations
  • Embrace
  • Pay Attention

• I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Fight
  • Pay Attention
  • Insults

• Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

  

  Estelle
  • Music
  • Garage
  • Pay Attention

• Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Judge
  • Write
  • Consider

• The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Mistake
  • Involved
  • Entrepreneurship

• What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What do you really want? And I think that's much harder to decipher in a culture that has no interest in it. What interests me is, are we going to wake in time? Are human beings going to wake up to ourselves, to the incredible poverty that's on this planet, to what we're doing to the earth, to what we're doing to women, to what we're doing to boys? That's what's important.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Interest
  • Human Beings
  • Wake Up

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