“if you keep focusing on everyone's journey, you're going to stop paying attention to your own.”

“Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.”

“You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.”

“If you have time to judge another person's life, you're not paying attention to yours.”

“You're going to keep a low profile throughout the entire competition... You're going to stay solidly in the middle, where no one will look your way, because you're not a threat, because they'll think that you'll be eliminated sooner or later, and they should focus their attention on getting rid of bigger, stronger, faster champions like Cain.'But you're going to outlast them,' Chaol continued. 'And when they wake up the morning of the final duel and find that you are their opponent, and that you have beaten them, the look on their faces will make all of the insults and lack of attention worthwhile.”

“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”