Peripheral Awareness Quotes

You have to feel fear; it's nature's beautiful fire. It widens your peripheral vision, and makes you more aware. That's one of the biggest challenges for me as an actor: to not let the fear go into your mind and start putting up stop signs and check posts in there.

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

One thing about being a great ball handler is not looking at the basketball.

If you're playing a shot and your peripheral vision picks up a player moving as you play the shot, if your vision goes from the object ball to what they're doing, you can miss the shot by several inches.

I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment... so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there's this peripheral haze.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

I know if someone is coming from my right side. I could feel it.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.