Maria Konnikova Quotes

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Art is about paying attention.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Attention is the material I work with.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I am unobservant.

Presence is more than just being there.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.