Your life is always paying close attention to your thoughts. I hope the words in your mind are consistently in your favor.
To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
