Quotes About Attention

Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention.

una persona que utiliza un ordenador experimenta una «deriva cognitiva» si pasa más de un segundo entre hacer clic con el ratón y ver nuevos datos en la pantalla. Si pasan diez segundos, la mente de la persona está ya en otro sitio.

Here is the broader point: whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention. Before spending all your time and resources, it's incredibly important to properly define the problem—or, better yet, redefine the problem.

When you stand up to preach, people are bored and expect you to make it worse.

A movement unlocked my attention. I re-focused my eyes, looking past the vodka glass and into the static buzz of the TV. I stayed very still for a few seconds before lowering the glass to the floor, careful not to take my eyes off the screen. There was something distant and alive in the depths of the white noise - a living glide of thoughts swimming forward, a moving body of concepts and half felt images.

Applying this idea in our daily life means breaking tasks into bite-size chunks and setting goals accordingly. A writer, for example, is better off trying to pen three great paragraphs at a time—the equivalent of moving through Mandy-Rae's kick cycles—rather than attempting one great chapter. Think challenging, yet manageable—just enough stimulation to shortcut attention into the now, not enough stress to pull you back out again.

Not only is the distracted present a miserable place to be, it's also the worst kind of self-handicapping. Study after study shows that we're terrible multitaskers. By trying to improve performance by being everywhere and everywhen, we end up nowhere and never. The sad truth is that our lives are pulling us in every direction save the one where we're most effective.

This isn't just your mind paying more attention—suddenly your entire body is paying attention. When this happens, it's outside our conscious capabilities. There are no words. Our language becomes that of the river. All the features of the river speak to you and you to them through motion. There is tension, threat, there is joy and release, and overall, a deep, deep sense of flow. You are literally part of the flow of the world.

And for flow junkies who get their fix through action sports, this has always been the dark secret. Ecstasis only arises when attention is fully focused in the present moment.

Companionship drives focus into the now

Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.

Training in high-stress situations increases what psychologists call "situational awareness." Defined as the ability to absorb information accurately, assess it calmly, and respond appropriately, situational awareness is essentially the ability to keep cool when all hell breaks loose. Because attention and pattern recognition are so heightened by flow, training in the state radically increases situational awareness.

we can remind ourselves of the reasons to strive for good style: to enhance the spread of ideas, to exemplify attention to detail, and to add to the beauty of the world.

Journalists assigned to an issue often cover the coverage, creating the notorious media echo chamber.

Linguistic research has shown that the passive construction has a number of indispensable functions because of the way it engages a reader's attention and memory.

sconser n. A person who looks around while talking to you to see if there's anyone more interesting about.

Outrages cannot become public without media coverage.

The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle imaginable.

la falta de atención a los descubrimientos que han transformado la vida para mejor justifica una crítica de nuestra apreciación de la condición humana moderna.

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

You can't treat a car like a human being. A car requires love.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.