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1. “Don’t stop paying attention to a project because it gets boring.”

Guy Kawasaki

Focus, Perseverance, Commitment, Attention, Consistency

2. “A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he’s afflicted, but I’m not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I’d get all mad. “Come on, man, there has to be more to that story.””

Mitch Hedberg

Attention, Deficit, Disorder, Humor, Focus

3. “Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.”

Charles Lamb

Books, Reading, Attention, Literature, Modernity

4. “My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.”

Steven Wright

Attention, Disorder, Clarity, HD, Humor

5. “No one is listening until you make a mistake.”

Steven Wright

Attention, Perception, Life, Psychology, Reality

6. “I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.”

Steven Wright

Humor, Personality, Friendship, Introvert, Attention

7. “Fighting the stereotype is a great way to get attention!”

Ankur Warikoo

Stereotypes, Attention, Defiance, Individuality, Impact

8. “I get the most replies to my newsletter whenever there is a typo in there. This isn't true for just newsletters. This is true for life!”

Ankur Warikoo

Imperfection, Attention, Response, Reality, Connection

9. “Stop measuring the success of your outcome, by the attention it gets.”

Ankur Warikoo

Success, Attention, Value, Authenticity, Focus

10. “Your attendance doesn’t define your discipline. Your attention does.”

Ankur Warikoo

Discipline, Attention, Presence, Focus, Commitment

11. “When we click pictures we are essentially telling our brain not to remember the moment.”

Ankur Warikoo

Photography, Memory, Presence, Attention, Experience

12. “Want to grow as a person? Stop seeking attention.”

Ankur Warikoo

Growth, Attention, Humility, Self-improvement, Focus

13. “It is amazing how much you can get to know about a person in just a 30-min interview, if all that you do is LISTEN and not evaluate!”

Ankur Warikoo

Listening, Understanding, Interview, Empathy, Attention

14. “If you are listening, you will never run out of ideas.”

Ankur Warikoo

Listening, Creativity, Ideas, Inspiration, Attention

15. “If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will.”

Sam Walton

Customers, Listening, Service, Competition, Attention

16. “How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong!”

V.S. Naipaul

Power, Weakness, Society, Attention, Inequality

17. “Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”

V.S. Naipaul

Conversation, Personality, Social Interaction, Depth, Attention

18. “Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Work, Attention, Mindfulness, Presence, Joy

19. “I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Attention, Awareness, Mindfulness, Devotion, Care

20. “If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Love, Attention, Relationships, Presence, Awareness

21. “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Attention, Mindfulness, Love, Presence, Compassion

22. “Nothing made the horse so fat as the king’s eye.”

Plutarch

Attention, Favor, Power, Supervision, Authority

23. “There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours.”

Scott Adams

Cats, Pets, Attention, Humor, Relationships

24. “Pay attention to the cracks, because that’s where the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen

Cracks, Light, Attention, Wisdom, Perception

25. “A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.”

Anton Chekhov

Women, Art, Attention, Perception, Society

26. “Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.”

Tara Brach

Attention, Love, Mindfulness, Awareness, Connection

27. “Mindfulness is the intentional process of paying attention, without judgment, to the unfolding of moment-by-moment experience.”

Tara Brach

Mindfulness, Awareness, Presence, Acceptance, Attention

28. “Quantum mechanics tells us that every feeling is a collapse of some wave functions due to the interference of a matrix of attention functions.”

Amit Ray

Quantum, Mechanics, Feelings, Wave, Attention

29. “Inside the Schrödinger’s cat box, the quasi quantum particles are dancing on the net of quantum attention function, vanishing and arising.”

Amit Ray

Quantum, Schrödinger, Particles, Physics, Attention

30. “Positive attention is the key to manifestation. When your attention is right, you will thrive and flourish. Moment by moment, the universe builds the pathways for your attentions to manifest.”

Amit Ray

Positive, Attention, Manifestation, Thrive, Universe

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