The scarcest resource is no longer land, capital, labour or information. It's attention - Accenture, 2001
The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food, and which runs so contrary to our natural impulse, is something we now have to relearn in relation to knowledge, people and ideas. We require periods of fast in the life of our minds no less than in that of our bodies - Alain de Botton, http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2010/03/alain-de-…
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself - Henry Miller
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind - James Truslow Adams (1878-1949), American historian, writer
Other matters cannot be allowed to sidetrack us from this most important of world issues [poverty] - Bob Geldof
Only by combining data stored deep within our brains can we forge new ideas. No amount of magpie assemblage can compensate for this slow, synthetic creativity. Hyperlinks and overstimulation mean the brain must give most of its attention to short-term decisions. Little makes it through the fragile transfer into deeper processing - The Economist, http://www.economist.com/node/16423330?story_id=16423330&fsrc=scn/tw/te…
It is not their intention to destroy... Their intention is to feed for as long as possible on the tremendous energies generated by the evolutionary struggle. Their purpose, therefore, is to prevent man from discovering the worlds inside himself, to keep his attention directed outwards. What would man be like if he could destroy these vampires, or drive them away? The first result would certainly be a tremendous sense of mental relief, a vanishing oppression, a surge of energy and optimism. Then man's energies would turn inward. He would discover that he has many 'selves', and that his higher 'selves' are what his ancestors would have called gods - Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites
If you had the attention of the entire world, what would you say? Write it down, for it will tell you a lot about the purpose of your life and your fundamental beliefs and mission - Robert Muller
If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention - anonymous graffitti, Clerkenwell, London
If a man reads very hard?he will have little time for thought - Robert Louis Stevenson