Quotes About Distractions

At first I didn't think I'd even be able to play—I had way too much going on in my mind—but to my profound surprise, my fingers didn't seem to care. Apparently if you wanted to rock, it didn't matter if you had explosives in the basement, or a father with a chronic problem with keeping his dick in his pants, or a crazed ex-Blackwater employee with some religious conviction for ripping your head off. Hell, it might have helped.

A young man's distractions are far more potent than an old man's memories,'he told me. He said that in the end memory is a cheat and a lie and no substitute for what he called the real stuff, the stuff of life.

You're not being responsible with what God gave you if you're hanging out with time wasters who have no goals and no dreams.

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you love? Why would you rather be lost in a haze of distractions!?

It's when you set aside your distractions, he said, that you begin to see what you were distracting yourself from.

If your picture of a perfect afterlife is being with the people you love all the time, he asked me, why wouldn't you choose today—while you're still alive—to be truly present with the people you love? Why would you rather be lost in a haze of distractions?

Focus, damn you. I thought back to this moment when, over a year later, I interviewed Professor Gloria Mark, who has spent years studying the science of interruptions. She explained to me that if you have spent long enough being interrupted in your daily life, you will start to interrupt yourself even when you are set free from all these external interruptions.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Interruptions are the spice of life.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Daily life is the enemy of greatness.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

of something, seduce, or give advice. Your sense of purpose defines your attitude, and knowing why you are in a conversation helps you to clear your head of distractions and irrelevant feelings.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

Something other than ghosts on which his mind can fix.

It's like, the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart, and you walk in, and your day is shredded to bits because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there, and something else happens, you're pulled off your work, then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do.

There are always going to be distractions, push and shove between players. It's about rolling with the punches and enjoying every situation, good or bad.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.