What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.
I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
Art is about paying attention.
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.
Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.
I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
We spend a lot of money on protecting other countries. And yet, those other countries aren't paying nearly what it costs us for that protection. Where - they're getting one of the great bargains of all time.
You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when the chef is not in the house? I feel cheated. I don't mind paying big money for food but if I go to Paul Bocuse's restaurant I want Paul in the house.
Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!
Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.
Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.