Quotes About Distractions

As distrações mais poderosas são as nossas emoções; qualquer coisa acerca da qual tenhamos sentimentos poderosos atrai a nossa atenção. As pessoas que são mais focadas conseguem resistir a essa atração magnética e manter-se focadas noutra coisa.

I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life. I will usually disappear for a couple of hours, and that time on my bike is quite sacred, as it's when I do all my serious thinking. Sometimes I will stop off at bikers' cafe and have a bacon sandwich.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when it's a book that asks for it, instead of a person?

?ovjek! Ljudi! Propustit ?e stotinu dobrih prilika samo da se upetlja ondje gdje ga nitko ne traži. Propustit ?e i ne?e opaziti prilike da stekne bogatstvo, slavu ili u?ini neko dobro djelo, a katkada, možda, i zlo. Ali nikada ne?e propustiti da se ne upetlja ondje gdje ga ne treba.

The problem is that urgencies—the most vivid and immediate circumstances—will always hog our spotlight.

action triggers have unexpected value. Gollwitzer says that when people predecide, they "pass the control of their behavior on to the environment." Gollwitzer says that action triggers "protect goals from tempting distractions, bad habits, or competing goals.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art.

In Bangor, she'd had no incentive to do homework—her foster parents were partiers, and she'd come home from school to find a house full of drunks. In Spruce Harbor, there aren't so many distractions. Dina and Ralph don't drink or smoke, and they're strict. Jack has a beer now and then, but that's about it. And Molly discovered that she actually likes to study.

Ces jeux de mémoire me réservent mille tentations de détours.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

Every day you run the risk of neglecting your own purposes in the whirl of responding to other people's requests and concerns. This

We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap

It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

Rien ne rétrécit plus l'esprit, rien n'engendre plus de riens, de rapports, de paquets, de tracasseries, de mensonges, que d'être éternellement renfermés vis-à-vis les uns des autres dans une chambre, réduits pour tout ouvrage à la nécessité de babiller continuellement.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.