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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

“I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.”

Thinking Attention Focus Modern Produce Signals Modern Life Messiness

Author:Richard Davidson

“I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.”

Mind Has Beens Book Shows Attention Opinion Lows Stones Smoke Traveler Signals

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“We must pay close attention to the signals our body sends - the aches and pains, digestions and indigestions, increased energies and exhaustions. Our body sends us signals about the correct 'spelling' of our lives. These sensations are the sum of complex inner computations that we must learn to interpret.”

Body Pain Energy Pay Attention Our Lives Complexes Sensations Signals Ache Exhaustion Spelling Digestion Indigestion Computation Aches And Pains

Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

“If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.”

Ifs Should Problem Together Moving Pay Attention Mines Gold Pay Attention Relative Currency Coal Signals Central Banks Canaries Moving Up

Author:Alan Greenspan

“I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.”

Knows Mind Wells Has Beens Book Soul Shows Attention Opinion Amount One Day Mountain Lows Stones Warm Naked Smoke Flames Traveler Signals Exposure Lectures

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.”

People Feels Two Matter Shows Attention Amount Conversation Empathy Research Phones Two Things Elsewhere Signals Decrease

Author:Judy Woodruff