“I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.” PeopleThinkingMindLittlesLongBigsMightUsedLevelsAttentionCompanyDeeperBotherCyclesLots Of MoneyUnderestimateUnderestimatedBig Companies Author:J. Robbins
“In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.” MeanDoeMemoriesAttentionAwarenessFieldsEnlightenmentPaidLifetimeInternalsConcentrationCycles Author:Frederick Lenz
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.” LongMomentsFightingSocialVoiceAttentionMediaCarTelevisionMessagesNewsRadioSocial MediaPocketsCyclesDesks Author:Joseph Prince
“When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.” PeopleKnowsHardProblemAttentionRichAlivePeriodsDrugDespairWeightAlcoholHard TimesCyclesBecome RichHealth ProblemsHaving A Hard TimeWeight Problems Author:Kelly Cutrone
“I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series, of course, was about the conflict between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz developed a system of metaphysics called monadology, which looked pretty weird at the time and was promptly buried by Newtonian-style physics.” TryingRunningCoursesAttentionStyleConflictSeriesPhysicsCyclesBuriedMetaphysicsNewtonBaroque Author:Neal Stephenson
“The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.” PeopleWayAttentionMediaNewsCrisisCyclesAttention Span Author:Edwidge Danticat