Quotes About Distractions

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

On the plus side, Matt was good-natured and didn't have a self-esteem problem, so you didn't have to deal with him blaming you for making him feel stupid. On the other hand, the minute you tried to talk about anything interesting, he would swiftly, good-naturedly, inexorably change the subject back to one of the three kinds of things he ever talked about.

How many men who had set out with great intentions had been forced off their path by irregular and complicated love affairs. It was imperative to be on one's guard!

Yoga is the teacher of yoga; yoga is to be understood through yoga. So live in yoga to realize yoga; comprehend yoga through yoga; he who is free from distractions enjoys yoga through yoga.

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

God has a funny way of giving you the answer when you get your mind away from goofy things.

I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.

I have to do some mental gymnastics as an actor sometimes, to remember not to let certain things in.

As you progress as a basketball player, the world around you becomes more and more chaotic. There's more talent, there are more distractions - and these are all factors that create a lack of control. By having a routine, by having habits that I can fall back on, it's my way of enacting control. It's the only thing I can control.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.

When I'm driving, the fewer distractions there are, the better it is to focus on the job in hand.

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal." —Robert Brault

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

If you have time for television but not for personal time with the Father, then you don't understand the value of your relationship with Him. If you spend hours on the Internet each week but rarely open your Bible, you are not committed to the honor of knowing and listening to Him.

The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we're given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what's called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.