Be Unfocussed
being focused does not mean avoiding eye contact or not making a joke. Being focused means spending time with what you are given as if you were alone or with a best friend.
Augusten Burroughs • This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
The camera is an instrument of transformation. It can make what it sees more beautiful, more gruesome, milder, darker, all the while insisting on the plain reality of its depiction.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Something about the act of committing that object to paper was completely engrossing—the way it necessitated seeing only what was there and shutting out the distraction of my ideas about chairs or vases and what they were supposed to look like.
Ed Catmull • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
“must be as ignorable as it is interesting,” he wrote. “An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or a surrounding influence: a tint.”