Felt Time Quotes

“intelligence is joined by other factors—for example, the capacity for frustration tolerance—for determining success
in life.”
― Marc Wittmann , Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

“At home, with work over and done, what reason is there...not to spend an hour, every evening, doing x? X might stand for whatever holds personal interest: reading..., spending time on a collection of interesting objects, taking a nighttime stroll on one's own or with one's partner. Do one thing, with full attention, for an hour a day. Or just spend fifteen minutes sitting on the sofa and don't do anything for a change: How's my posture? Does anything hurt? How do I feel? We can give free rein to fantasy and observe how we may come to terms with the acceleration of the world that we experience.”
― Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

“Critics of acceleration maintain that accelerating patterns of life are the reason for a commonly voiced sense of unease--the feeling that one is not "really" living. Everything is done all at once, faster and faster, yet no personal balance or meaning can be found. This implies the loss of contact with one's own self. We also no longer feel "at home" with ourselves and find it difficult to persist in any given activity because we are available at every moment; the phone always rings at the worst possible time.”
― Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

“...temporal feature of memory--specifically the disintegration of memory traces--might function as internal signals for the passing of time.”
― Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time