#pay attention

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. ↗

— James Cook

#attention #just #limitations #never #once

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#annoying #attention #demanding #doing #else

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#attention #else #everybody #everybody else #got

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#always #attention #brain #development #education

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate. ↗

— James McAvoy

#bones #character #charm #charming #deliberate

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#al gore #attention #course #destruction #earth

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. ↗

— John Elway

#because #doing #learn #lot #lows

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't. ↗

— Victor Garber

#before #demands #entertainment #happened #i

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#again #areas #attention #coastal #country

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. ↗

— John McCarthy

#attitude #his #need #pay #pay attention