Architecture Quote by Winifred Gallagher

“Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and…

— Winifred Gallagher

“Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a…

— Winifred Gallagher

“Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the…

— Winifred Gallagher

“Research shows that when they confront a potentially unpleasant situation, such as some unfriendly faces at a gathering, these extraverts are apt to shift…

— Winifred Gallagher

“Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh:…

— Winifred Gallagher

“Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with…

— Winifred Gallagher

“Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.”

— Winifred Gallagher

“Einstein didn't invent the theory of relativity while he was multitasking at the Swiss patent office." quoting, David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the…

— Winifred Gallagher

“However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering…

— Winifred Gallagher

“In a variation on James's recipe for interesting experience--the familiar leavened by the novel--Hobbs's "art of choosing difficulties" requires selecting projects that are "just…

— Winifred Gallagher

“I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is.”

— Winifred Gallagher

“Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn’t put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life…

— Winifred Gallagher