“My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.” ThinkingMadeFilmPayAttentionRecordsTelevisionMachinesMy FavoritePay AttentionVisualsTapeSoundtracksAnswering Machines Author:Mark Mothersbaugh
“Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.” MenImportantHomeLightBeautifulHoursWorkAttentionHalfEnvironmentAirMinesRevolutionCivilizationOfficeWorshipMachinesReactionsDawnShopsWakingFactoriesDevotedWorkplaceAdequateSurroundingsUglinessEvokeBreedingInfancyTranquillityElevatingWarehouseSqualorPlaces Of WorshipMachine Shop Author:B. C. Forbes
“People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.” PeopleNeedsFeelsShouldWellsDifferentCharacterSeemsWould BePainJoySufferingHumanityVoiceNaturalAnimalAttentionStrangeMachinesPhilosophicalAffectionDareCrueltyVeganAnimal RightsDistinguishedAnimatedAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal WorldAnimal LifeAnimal EthicsAnimal TestingKindness To AnimalsDifferent VoicesDifferent AnimalsAnimal SufferingAnimal IntelligenceNatural Intelligence Author:Voltaire
“Dialogue is really aimed at going into the whole thought process and changing the way the thought process occurs collectively. We haven't really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, put we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. Why does thought require attention? Everything requires attention, really. If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down. Our thought, too, is a process, and it requires attention, otherwise its going to go wrong.” IfsWayDoeWholeProcessAttentionBreakMachinesPaidDialoguePay AttentionRanEngagedOur ThoughtsBreaking DownThought Process Author:David Bohm
“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.” MenMayFactsAbleFacesUsedCoursesLostLossAttentionCenturyDemandIntellectualCapacityMachinesInnocenceDenialCapabilityNineteenth Century Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form
“Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.” MenMindHas BeensBodyGivenPerfectAttentionMaterialsMachinesWoodsBritishTreatedExceptionMetalsMechanismInferiorsMind And BodyIntroductionRaw Materials Book:Essays on the Formation of the Human Character Source: Essays on the Formation of the Human Character