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“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.”

People Facts Simple Pay Attention Happenings Slogans Electorate

Author:John F. Kerry

“It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.”

Effort Attention Fronts Happenings Pious

Book:Point Omega

Source: Point Omega

“I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.”

Thinking World Pay Attention Fashion Hair Drug Happenings Skins Shoes Muscles Foreheads Abdominals

Author:Meryl Streep

“What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.”

Matter Pay Attention Happenings Pay Attention Pencils Exterior

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.”

People Thinking Stories Happens Numbers Attention Novel Issues Happenings Sufficient Life Happens

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.”

Happens Eye Attention Fronts Happenings Paid Something New Passages Passage Of Time

Author:William Eggleston

“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.”

World Needs May Shows Attention Demand Happenings Photograph Versions Viewers Posing

Author:Fred Ritchin

“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.”

People Needs Feels Trying Moments Felt Realizing Attention Brain Focus Imagine Plans Worst Stage Happenings Calm Terror Consistent That Moment Surprising Thread Surviving Worst Moments

Author:Amanda Ripley