Attention Quote by Alan Moore

“Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the…

— Alan Moore

Our reality is narrow, confined, and fleeting. Whatever we think is important right now, in our mundane lives, will no longer be important against…

— Liu Cixin

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

— Win Butler

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience…

— Duane Elgin

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have…

— Melissa Etheridge

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.…

— John Bradshaw

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

— Richard Davidson

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus…

— Nicholas Hoult

“It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of…

— Alain de Botton

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

— E. O. Wilson

Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

— Ai Yazawa

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

— Henri Nouwen