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Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.
Relax, refresh and refocus.
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it..
After realization, the attention becomes enlightened.
To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life].
Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT.
How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears
When mind is blurred, everything becomes blurred even on the brightest day; when mind is clear everything becomes clear even on the foggiest day!
The attention is to be kept pure.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.
The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.
Focusing is all about saying no
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
FOCUS, FOCUS, CONSOLIDATED FOCUS.
BEWARE OF DISTRACTION
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality ... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.
The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.
Never disperse your focus unless absolutely necessary. Face one adversary at a time.
The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.
Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
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It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths ... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
Our essential task is to deliver a method of stalking shadow attention so as to free humanity from that influence.
Refire - an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy.
Ducking autocorrect!
Hocus Pocus let's try to focus
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
Miseducation = Misdirection
His helmet was stifling, it narrowed his vision. And he must see far. His shield was heavy. It threw him off balance. And his target is far away.
Focusing is about saying No.
Fix your gazes on the invisible.
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it.
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
She wasn't invisible anymore. She'd stepped dead-bang into the spotlight, and she'd painted a big bull's-eye on her head.
I remember doing a little student film where we had a guy that couldn't pull focus. We ended up spending three times the amount of time shooting this thing as opposed to if the guy could've just pulled focus.
All beautiful distractions, ignites from you.
Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.Focus-- Steve Jobs
I'm a relatively unfocused person.
I was too absorbed to be responsive
I'm kind of a distractible guy.
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.
Illuminate the opposition.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
Relax,Refreshed!
In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
Compliment inflates.
Blame deflates.
Truth understates.
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.
You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
In excess altercation, truth is lost.
A blur of great magic is still just a blur.
Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don't see enough.
Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.
Floaters swarmed through his eyeballs like schools of panicked fish.
The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining.
Regardless of how bitter or uncomfortable or ill-fitting an answer may be, irrespective of its hazard or grotesqueness, the Impartial Observer's only duty is to open the shutter and let the photons pour in: uncensored.
The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.
I will omit but I will not distort.
Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo.
When your attention is diffuse, it's like a broad, weak beam of light that doesn't reveal much. Concentration brings the weak beam down to a single, sharply focused, supremely bright, exponentially more illuminating point.
Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.
fixed Alice with her eyes
The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature ...
Don't think of people in the mass. This gives you a blurred view
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Memory is this, not the target dead on center
but the hurt unwept.
I'm very big on focus.
Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.
A Glass Eye leaped out from behind a parcked smail-trasport, blocked thier way. "Did you drop something?" Dodge asked the assassian. "Caus I think I see you ... " he unheathed his sword and swung, decapitating the Glass Eye in one blow, " ... head over there.
Eye blocking is a very powerful display of consternation, disbelief, or disagreement.
Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.
In the midst of hardship and fear, suffering and difficulty, the person who's built the habit of focus harnesses tremendous power.
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
Squeezed back. Or, more likely, someone
the spectator is the true vanishing point
The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age - unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
For success, focus has utmost importance, but distraction is disastrous.
That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.
Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.
If you blur your eyes, the streetlights become hundreds of ghosts going home.
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Make injustice visible.
Obtuseness was its own defense
We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object ... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.
Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred; agree to be bright!
I think I'm a little concussed.
The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.