Attention Quote by William James

As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of…

— William James

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

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a…

— Jim Holt

“Within your mind, there are hardly any lines at all. All its contents flow into each other, sensations becoming thoughts, feelings, desires, actions, and…

— Rick Hanson

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

— James Agee

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

— Deepak Chopra

I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The…

— Antoni Tapies

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth…

— Stuart Sutherland

“Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several…

— William James

“You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but the context…

— Bernard Beckett

“Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.”

— Kitaro Nishida