Attention Quote by Thomas Metzinger Download Open image “All attention is introspection.” — Thomas Metzinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Focus Introspection Self-Awareness
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image