Home / Topics / Attention Quotes

Attention Quotes

Browse 6826 quotes about Attention.

Attention Quotes

“Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.”

Humans Wells Happens Certain Interesting Attention Circumstances Experiments Psychological Fragile Entity Traffic Fluid Threshold

Author:Tom Vanderbilt

“Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.”

Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.”

Way Attention Roles Activity Behavior Concern Direct Psychological Participation Interpersonal

Author:Nancy Chodorow

“I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.”

“Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.”

Firsts Attention Virtue Depends Psychological Cardinals

Book:The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire

Source: The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire