Quotes About Distractions

You can get so that every step, every little obstacle on the battlefield, becomes so big that you can't see much past it, and when you do get past, it's sometimes hard to remember what the hell you were supposed to be doing.

read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.

puso nuestro talento natural al servicio de una orgía de complejidad, superficialidad y distracciones tecnológicas.

my opinion, setting clearly defined goals for all the areas of your life works for three reasons. First, it restores a sense of focus in your world, a world that has become complicated by too many options. In this age we live in, there are simply far too many things to do at any given time. There are too many distractions that compete for our attention. Goals clarify our desires and, in doing so, help us to focus on only those activities that will lead us to what we want.

Molti in questa epoca trascorrono le loro ore più preziose occupati, occupatissimi, a inseguire obiettivi banali e divertimenti artificiali, mentre trascurano la vita vera. Questa è la ricetta per collassare alla fine. A che serve passare le vostre mattine migliori e i vostri giorni potenzialmente più produttivi a scalare montagne che, quando sarete deboli e vecchi, capirete che erano quelle sbagliate? Tristissimo.

las horas que el 95 % del mundo desperdicia son las que la élite del 5 % atesora. Las 5 de la mañana es la hora en la que las distracciones son menores y en la que la paz y la predisposición son mayores.

Rockefeller also favored Archbold because he was wedded to Standard Oil business, whereas Rogers was often distracted by other interests.

Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon;

Notre époque est celle des incohérences systématisées, et l'imbécile que nous avons en nous est devenu l'un des Titans, sur les épaules de qui repose le poids du système social et économique. Le recueillement, ou domination des distractions, n'a jamais été plus nécessaire qu'à présent; jamais, non plus, on peut s'en douter, il n'a été aussi difficile

As the art and science of manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine [techniques of propaganda] with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational [information] essential to the maintenance of individual liberty.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

In Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us,* the authors state that distractions consume an average of 2.1 hours per day.

Monkeys and pedestals boils down to some very good advice: Figure out the hard thing first. Try to solve that as quickly as possible. Beware of false progress.

The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

Life would be unbearable if we were conscious of it. Fortunately we're not. We live as unconsciously, as uselessly and as pointlessly as animals, and if we anticipate death, which presumably (though not assuredly) they don't, we anticipate it through so many distractions, diversions and ways of forgetting that we can hardly say we think about it.