"Intellectual culture consists, not chiefly, as many are apt to think, in accumulating information, though this is imp…"

"No man is in any degree fit for either business or conversation, who does not command his attention to the present ob…"

"With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought: Constant attention wea…"

"We may confer a benefit, not only on ourselves, but on others, by diverting attention from the exciting circumstances…"

"From hence in my opinion arises that common prejudice against metaphysical reasonings of all kinds, even amongst thos…"

"I would like to develop a reductionist approach to the problem of attention by focusing on how place cells... create …"

"Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart."

"A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But …"

"Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own. Listening, stand…"

"Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be …"