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“The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.”

Heart Moments Attention Design Objects Genius Waste Painter Divides Great Design

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.”

Thinking Knows Should Kind I Can Today Past Pay Attention Genius Computer Disaster All Kinds Pay Attention Closest Chips Parallels Inventing Silicon

Author:Billy Zane

“The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an artist so sublimely confident that he doesn't include a single shot simply to keep our attention. He reduces each scene to its essence, and leaves it on screen long enough for us to contemplate it, to inhabit it in our imaginations. Alone among science-fiction movies, “2001'' is not concerned with thrilling us, but with inspiring our awe.”

Source: 33 Movies to Restore Your Faith in Humanity: Ebert's Essentials

“To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”

Made Stuff Memories Attention Genius

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.”

Men Artist Process Attention He Man Genius Mass Thinker Variation Select Selective

Author:Boris Sidis

“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.”

Men Attention Genius

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.”

People Thinking Attention Brain Focus Subjects Genius Intelligence

Author:Esther Hicks

“Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Ideas Whole Pay Attention Creative Magic Genius Notion Yesterday Pay Attention Small Things Creative People

Author:Bell Hooks

“Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.”

Giving Happens Law Understanding Attention Subjects Genius Periods Attraction Law Of Attraction Evolve Make It Happen Specifics

Author:Esther Hicks