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I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game... Tom Wolfe
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Julia Cameron
I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone who reverses the subject and auxiliary verb in his sentence. Steven Brust
Hazrat Inayat Khan quote: "When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that..."
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. Hazrat Inayat Khan
Form often this good thought, that we are walking in this world between Paradise and Hell, and that our last step will place us in an eternal dwelling. We do not know which step will be our last, and so, in order to make our last step well, we must try to make all the others well. O holy and unending eternity! Blessed is he who thinks of you. Yes, for what do we play here in this world but a children's game for who knows how many days? It would be nothing whatever, if it were not the passage... Saint Francis de Sales
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing? or one person? at a time. Maureen Dowd
It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western Civilization, if you cared to pay attention: music, finance, government, architecture, law and sculpture and painting, history and medicine and athletics and every sort of science, and books, books, books, and teachers and role models. People so smart you can’t believe it, and people so dumb you can’t believe it. People so nice you can’t believe it, and people so mean you can’t believe it. Kurt Vonnegut
Cormac McCarthy quote: "People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an..."
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same. Cormac McCarthy
Mary Oliver quote: "Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished...."
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But..."
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. Ludwig Wittgenstein
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the presentmoment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seemsto work in whispers and small kindnesses. Charles de Lint
If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy. Deepak Chopra
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat? Thomas Friedman
Nana Mouskouri quote: "Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying..."
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. Nana Mouskouri
When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it. Andrew Motion

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