Meredith Whitney Quotes

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

We become what we pay attention to.

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

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

People get bored very quickly.

Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.

Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.

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.

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

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.