Quotes by : Winifred Gallagher

In a variation on James's recipe for interesting experience--the familiar leavened by the novel--Hobbs's....

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor....

Among these temperamentally unhappy campers are "reactant" personalities, who focus on what they often....

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first....

Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look....

However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through....

Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal....

Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says,....

Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example,....

Recently, the search for what he calls "the splinters that make up different attention problems" has....