Quotes About Distractions

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

If you react to every barking dog, if you stop for every barking dog, you're never getting home.

It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

Here's the key: I'm not going to tell you how to change. People don't change. I want you to trust who you already are, and get to that Zone where you can shut out all the noise, all the negativity and fear and distractions and lies, and achieve whatever you want, in whatever you do.

all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.

Not-to-do lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance. The reason is simple. What you don't do determines what you can do.

Robienie rzeczy niewa?nej sprawia, ?e nie zrobisz czego? wa?nego. Zadanie wymagaj?ce czasu wcale nie staje si? wa?ne tylko z tego powodu. Od tej chwili zapami?taj sobie na zawsze, ?e to, co robisz, jest niesko?czenie wa?niejsze od tego, jak to robisz. Wydajno?? jest wa?na, ale bezu?yteczna, je?li nie odnosi si? do w?a?ciwych rzeczy.

Je?li chcemy mie? wi?cej czasu, musimy robi? mniej – to kluczowy warunek. Istniej? dwa sposoby osi?gni?cia tego stanu, które najlepiej zastosowa? równocze?nie: (1) przygotuj krótk? list? rzeczy do zrobienia; (2) przygotuj list? rzeczy, których nie nale?y robi?.

En otras palabras, descubrir oportunidades para favorecer la creatividad de los demás, localizar salidas y personas para establecer una colaboración y eliminar distracciones que entorpezcan su progreso y concentración.

It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three.

what a beautiful metaphor this is for not mistaking the husk—the outer accoutrements of productivity like busyness, or a full calendar, or a clever auto-responder—not mistaking those for the kernel, the core and substance of the actual work produced. And he then says, 'Those who work much, do not work hard.' I

Our sight is dimmed by the tyranny of the urgent, by the siren call of success, by the seductive beauty of physical things, by our inability to admit our own problems, and by the casual relationships within the body of Christ that we mistakenly call fellowship.

The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.

I'm sure that if Ronda could take time off, go to the gym and train for three months for a fight with Holly Holm with absolutely no distractions, I don't even want to imagine the Ronda Rousey we're going to see come out. Again, we are talking top of the food chain, Olympic, amazing athlete.

Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.

A yogi must be able to pass into, and continue in, the superconsciousness, regardless of multitudinous distractions never absent from this earth. Whether in the buzz of insects or the pervasive glare of daylight, the testimony of the senses must be barred. Sound and sight come then indeed, but to worlds fairer than the banished Eden.

Distractions arise from habitual thought patterns when practice is intermittent.

La mente bloquea nuestros miedos existenciales y se centra en cuestiones que podamos afrontar, como llegar a tiempo al trabajo o pagar nuestros impuestos. Para sobrevivir, nos deshacemos de los miedos existenciales tan rápido como podemos, y dedicamos la atención a tareas simples y trivialidades diarias.

Decades before we began to drown in a sea of distractions, cognitive scientist Herbert Simon made this prescient observation: "What information consumes is attention. A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.

Rapport demands joint attention—mutual focus. Our need to make an effort to have such human moments has never been greater, given the ocean of distractions we all navigate daily.

Moral sentiments derive from empathy, and moral reflections take thinking and focus. One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.19 The more distracted we are, the less we can exhibit attunement and caring.

Os sentimentos morais derivam da empatia e as reflexões morais implicam tempo e foco. Um dos custos do frenético fluxo das distrações que enfrentamos hoje em dia, receiam alguns, é uma erosão da empatia e da compaixão. Quanto mais distraídos andamos, menos conseguimos cultivar formas mais subtis de empatia e compaixão.

Não é a tagarelice das pessoas à nossa volta que constitui a fonte mais poderosa das distrações, mas antes a tagarelice das nossas próprias mentes. A concentração absoluta exige que estas vozes interiores sejam silenciadas.

Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near-constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. Forget that resolve to diet. Lost in the digital world we mindlessly reach for the Pringles.