Quotes About Distractions

Life can be reset, it seems to say; time can be separated. But that logic appears to me as unlikely as traveling to another place to become a different person. Altered sceneries are at best distractions, or else new settings for old habits. What one carries from one point to another, geographically or temporally, is one's self. Even the most inconsistent person is consistently himself.

I work best without distractions. Do Not Disturb signs are made for someone like me. I'm baffled by writers who prefer to write in Starbucks.

On the direct path you constantly reinforce your purpose, which keeps the distractions at bay.

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

Living a life in which you're constantly letting yourself down and feeling powerless against distractions and impulses is hard; waiting a few seconds and retraining your focus to achieve success is easy.

You must head down your path to riches with a sense of urgency or else you'll fall prey to distractions, laziness, limiting beliefs, procrastination, binge watching TV shows. Work with diligent focus and grateful expectation, do all you can every day to the best of your ability, remember that the sooner you achieve your financial goals, the longer you get to spend on Earth basking in your riches.

But sometimes a person's brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you're inside that loop, you can't see past it. You'll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they're outside the loop. Distractions aren't just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.

The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.

You theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid when you were working.

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can "rest in God.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

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.

It is up to me whether I continue to stay a Premier League player or just get caught up in the lights and fall back but I am sure that will not be the case.

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.

I agree with President Trump that we need good jobs in this country, but let's get to that business rather than the distractions of repealing Obamacare or raiding communities and taking otherwise law-abiding, contributing citizens away from their families.