Attentional Quotes

#1. It's the central executive in your brain that notices that the floor is dirty. It forms an executive attentional set for "mop the floor" and then constructs a worker attentional set for doing the actual mopping.

Daniel J. Levitin

#2. Capitalism has gotten hip to the fact that for all our talk of an information economy, what we really have is an attentional economy, if the term "economy" applies to what is scarce and therefore valuable.

Matthew B. Crawford

#3. It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase 'homo distractus,' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.

Tim Wu

#4. Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Norman Doidge

#5. The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

Eric Jensen

#6. Humans do not have enough mental capacity to do all the things that we think we can do. As attentional load increases, attentional capacity gradually diminishes.

Margaret Heffernan

#7. 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.)

Daniel J. Levitin

#8. Two of the most crucial principles used by the attentional filter are change and importance

Daniel J. Levitin

#9. As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

Greg Carlson

#10. Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. Increasingly, we demand that our attentional system try to focus on several things at once, something that it was not evolved to do.

Daniel J. Levitin

#11. The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

John Medina

#12. If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

Evan Osnos

#13. I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#14. People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.

John Gardner

#15. She looked fragile. Alone. Prisoner in the room through the mirror; an Alice who never made it back through the looking-glass.

Joss Stirling

#16. To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her, which is the most terrible bond of all

Henry Miller

#17. I haven't agreed with every one of my Republican colleagues or Democratic colleagues on every issue. But I'm supporting Donald Trump because we need change in this country.

Mike Pence

#18. Real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Barry Lopez

#19. I think having a term for a condition that is prevalent is useful, because then people understand it as something not particular to them. It allows you not to ask the question, "What's wrong with me?" and begin to ask the question, "What's wrong with this place that I'm in?"

Claudia Rankine

#20. Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, "Respect me; I'm a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Wendy Wasserstein

#21. The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

Leonardo Da Vinci