Quotes About Distractions

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

I wouldn't say I would have won a lot more tournaments if it wasn't for video games but I think I would have given myself more opportunities to go further in other events.

I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work.

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

Our schedules are always filled with other things.

There are tons of things I could and probably should be doing for work right now. But at some point, you have to put it aside and get busy with the things that really matter.

As a beginner, it is most important that you secure your own well-being, guarding your mind in solitude, abandoning distractions and busyness, avoiding unfavorable situations, and subduing the mental afflictions with appropriate antidotes.

The mind is stirred up by ideas, which are like chaff. It is agitated by distractions, which are like the gusting wind. Thus there is no access to this nature. But if you rest correctly in the pure accomplished mind Beyond arriving and departing, Whence there's nothing to remove, To which there's nothing to be added; If you rest in primal wisdom All-creating, free from stain, You will behold this nature as it is.

He knows what all therapists know: That the presenting problem, the issue somebody comes in with, is often just one aspect of a larger problem, if not a red herring entirely. He knows that most people are brilliant at finding ways to filter out the things they don't want to look at, at using distractions or defenses to keep threatening feelings at bay.

That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. from The Beast God Forgot to Invent

Néha úgy vélem, épp emiatt nem haladunk úgy, mint a nemzet többi része. Az emberek olyan sok idÅ't töltenek távol a munkájuktól mások meglincselése miatt, és olyan sok pénzt költenek kötélre meg kerozinra, meg arra, hogy elÅ'zetesen leigyák magukat, meg a többi szükséges dologra, hogy a gyakorlati dolgokra nem marad se túl sok pénz, se munkaóra.

Most useless things in the world, men," she muttered as she sent her female slaves scurrying here and there. "They only get in one's way whenever anything important needs to be done.

I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

Take back control of your time by eliminating interruptions.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Many people worry about more things what most people don't care at all.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Si los muertos ven claramente, solo los vivos nos cegamos constante can trivalidades.

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.

The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

Ifs" hover in the air above your head all the time when you're doing surgery, like a cloud of gnats. For the most part, though, they keep a respectful distance, only buzzing dimly in the background. Done.