‘Attention,’ wrote the French thinker Simone Weil, ‘is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’ Give your sentences that courtesy and they will repay you.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Subtle shifts in language can sometimes have surprising consequences. The language of attention seems particularly loaded with economic and value-oriented metaphors, such as when we speak of paying attention or imagine our attention as a scarce resource we must either waste or horde. However, to my ears, the related language of attending to the wor... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Attending to the World
Attention means bringing something or someone into focus so it is no longer blurred by the projections of your own ego; thus it requires genuine interest and curiosity about the mysterious and surprising truth that is you.
David Richo • How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
the ability not just to withdraw attention, but to invest it somewhere else,
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Usually, when we think about attention, we only think about focused attention – something that requires willpower to sustain. This is not too surprising, because this is what most psychologists, philosophers and neuroscientists used to have in mind when they talked about attention (Bruya 2010, 5). Today, research differentiates between multiple for
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