Attention Quote by Bertrand Russell

“I was walking around in an almost blind, crazy rage of madness. There was a story burning a hole in my brain, and it…

— Leigh Hershkovich

“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to subject, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I’d later read up on it, because understanding something meant being able to handle it, and my problems back then had been ones I…

— wildbow

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just…

— Peter J. Carroll

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give…

— Fritjof Capra

Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't…

— Lewis Thomas

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first…

— William Hazlitt

“The moment after, I began to respire 20 quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide. A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities, was almost…

— Humphry Davy

“I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores;…

— Herman Melville

“And yet—and this was even more frightening still—I could also feel something within me come undone. Even today, all these decades later, I cannot…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high…

— Pierre Loti