“Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.” ThinkingWorldStillsRealMatterLightAttentionIdentityReal WorldExposedWhat MattersUncertainMisconceptionVetsMaking Friends Book:Mastery Source: Mastery
“Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.” LightAttentionWeekIdentityWeakSpeedAttention SpanSpeed Of Light Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.” IfsKnowsTryingStillsRealFeelingsEyeSpiritAttentionKnow HowToo MuchInformationIdentityTravelEssenceWideMysteriousTunesReverenceInwardNeedlesFactualRapport Author:Lawrence Durrell
“I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.” ThinkingWritingBelieveIdeasOrderI BelieveSoundPayAttentionIdentityUniversalDramaticTruthfulUniversalityDramatic Writing Book:Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? Source: Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?
“Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child. We all know what that does to a woman's identity. But, at the same time, it caused me to start to reevaluate all those things weren't able to stay intact - all the people's attention, all the success, the financial security. It didn't have any value.” PeopleKnowsChildrenDoeAbleValuesAttentionSecurityIdentityCircumstancesCrisisFinancialBrokeBroke UpFinancial Security Author:Patricia Mauceri