Synonyms for pay attention
pay at·ten·tion

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1. pay attentionverb

   To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.

   Please pay attention to the danger signs.

   Synonyms:
   pay heed

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1. Jerry Lam:

   Before the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong people didn't really pay attention to politics. But now, everyone cares, our generation will pass this story onto the next generation, and they'll know what we did.

2. Bennett Kayser:

   When kids are hungry, they don't pay attention, this is something that should have started years ago.

3. Vincent Van Gogh:

   At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.”

4. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   Not a (typical) politician ... but somebody that's going to go in, do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strength in our military as well.

5. Stephen Colbert:

   I know there's some polls out there saying that this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well-known liberal bias.