People only see what they are prepared to see.
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.
Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.
People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.
We become what we pay attention to.
It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.
An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.
The cure to information overload is more information.
Anybody in Britain, the big fights. I'm here for the big fights. I don't care about the little fights any more.
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.
Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.
Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.
But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.
At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.
