Dinesh Paliwal Quotes

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

People dont pay attention until they have to

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting to skip to their favorite song, or putting something else on, practically. That's why the zone out is a good thing.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.