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“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.”

Kind Use Force Powerful Attention Consciousness Modern Fields Reader Areas All Kinds Operations Enterprise Listeners Viewers Staging Overloaded

Author:Saul Bellow

“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”

May Important Attention Majors Constant Operations Nurse Nursing Surgeons Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Inspirational Nurse Inspirational Nursing Brain Surgeons Cognitive Therapy Inspiring Nursing Nursing School Great Nursing Stethoscope

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.”

Art Sometimes Poetry Purpose Artist Space Attention Media Emotional Response Operations Performing Repeats Behaviour Provoking Time And Space Variation Simplify Emotional Response

Author:Ellen Dissanayake

“The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.”

Ifs Forget Results Pay Attention Company Return Investing Pay Attention Operations Investors Dividends

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.”

States Law Certain White Race Attention Violence Failing Conditions Materials Theory Offers Aim Strategy Critical Reform Operations White Supremacy Critique Supremacy

Author:Dean Spade