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“The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.”
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“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
Source : New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
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“Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.”
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“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery . . .”
Source : "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.
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“We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.”
Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Love and Friendship: A Novel”, p.440, Open Road Media
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“A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.”
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“The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.”
Source : Jeff Galloway (2001). “Marathon: You Can Do It!”, p.80, Shelter Publications, Inc.
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“It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.”
