Quotes About Attention

Sobrecarregar a atenção diminui o domínio mental. É no momento em que estamos mais tensos que esquecemos os nomes das pessoas que conhecemos bem, já para não falar nas datas dos seus aniversários, dos nossos aniversários de casamento e de outros dados socialmente cruciais.

A sobrecarga cognitiva crónica que caracteriza tantas das nossas vidas parece diminuir o nosso nível de domínio de nós mesmos. Quanto maiores as exigências sobre a nossa atenção, ao que parece, mais fracos somos a resistir às tentações.

The dimension of time is a huge problem—if the pace of global warming were accelerated to a few years instead of over centuries, people would pay more attention. But it's like the national debt: I'll leave it to my grandchildren—I'm sure they'll think of some solution.

As distrações mais poderosas são as nossas emoções; qualquer coisa acerca da qual tenhamos sentimentos poderosos atrai a nossa atenção. As pessoas que são mais focadas conseguem resistir a essa atração magnética e manter-se focadas noutra coisa.

Make no mistake: E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter checking constitute a neural addiction.

a close friend is someone with whom we can allow ourselves to enter the daydreaming attentional mode, with whom we can switch in and out of different modes of attention without feeling awkward.)

Wilson showed that the cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot smoking.

You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

It's not love-but she's important to me. I find myself listening for her footsteps down the hallway whenever she's been out.

Existem muitas pessoas que darão dinheiro ou bens materiais, mas poucas que darão tempo e atenção.

When little islands of presence cut into our moments of absence, we start to taste the difference in pleasure that presence brings us. When practice mixes with pleasure, we are not far from being definitively lost to the cause of automatism.

Where do people need to go so badly they can't realise what is already here, outside the car window

His eyes did not track when they were talking, and when he blinked, which wasn't often, she could count to three before his eyelids touched.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

I didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much.

It's funny how nobody notices all the good things you do until you don't do them.

I want to change my name on Facebook to "Nobody," so when I see someone posting something stupid I can Like their post and it will say "Nobody likes this."

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Also it lights up your big dumb face.

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attention of people who formerly snubbed you."

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.