Activity Quote by Bridget Riley Download Open image “Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.” — Bridget Riley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity
“Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It's not easy to focus every point, you know. You lose some concentration. — Kei Nishikori Copy Share Image
I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour,… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically,… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
