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“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

“An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.”

Strong Understanding Attention Impossible Land Emotional Developing Subtle Wilderness Inward Strong Emotional

Book:Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“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

“Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.”

“Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.”

Chance Attention Emotional Communication Empathy Connections Pay Attention Lacking Emotional Connection

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.”

Done Stories Levels Attention Comedy Emotional Wide Range Sensations Triggers Adrenaline

Author:David Hayter

“At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.”

Should Heart Ends Stories Able Film Powerful Attention Audience Successful Middle Emotional Intellectual Narrative Dramatic Capture Viewers Arcs Protagonists Beginning Middle And End

Author:Julia Bacha

“It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.”

Littles Helping Bits Attention Emotional Mindfulness Little Bit Engagement Listeners Nurturing Good Listener

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.”

Needs Healing Attention Emotional Reflection Illness

Author:Tom Shadyac

“As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing”

Wanted Song Attention Records Emotional Paid Communicate Titles Length Describing

Author:Jacob Bannon

“Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations.”

Looks Use Body Can Do Pay Attention Awareness Emotional Baseball Balls Golf Size Painful Your Body Pay Attention Sensations Concrete Golf Ball Stabbing

Author:Gary Zukav

“Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.”

World Humans Littles Today Form Certain Values Attention Emotional Intellectual Reactions Association Output Thrift Emotional Reactions

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.”

Thinking States Attention Emotional Pay Attention

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Having cameras follow you is something that requires a little personal adjustment, but you actually do begin to forget they're there. It's impossible to maintain that awareness all the time, and when you're going through an emotional or absorbing experience, you really don't have any spare attention to think, "Got to remember that the camera is rolling."”

Thinking Remember Forget Attention Impossible Awareness Emotional

Author:Al Gore

“When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the camera's there.”

Attention Emotional

Author:Al Gore

“There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because the overriding concern of the book was to create this disease that had no cure and make you pay attention to every emotional stage of what happens.”

Book Attention Emotional Concern Pay Attention

Author:Joshua Ferris

“Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.”

Energy Attention Sacrifice Emotional Massive Parenthood Emotional Energy

Author:Jonathan Sacks