Quotes About Distraction

Darling, we're going to have a baby again,' she would say to her husband. I haven't the time,' Lieutenant Scheisskopf would grumble petulantly. 'Don't you know there's a parade going on?

Why don't you ever whip me? she pouted one night. Because I haven't the time, he snapped at her impatiently. I haven't the time. Don't you know there's a parade going on?

You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.

She listens to him with great intensity because she is paying no attention to him at all.

If you try too hard to hear the telephone ring, you cannot.

multitasking isn't actually possible. In the same way that we can only focus on one sense perception, we can really only focus on one task at a time.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on

I just thought, 'Wait a minute, if I'm going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I've ever been in my life. … It's like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It's like, 'Um, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just…I have to…It's super important for my law!

there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

Unfamiliar places could be more dangerous than familiar places, unexpectedly. The boy had been discovering that an unfamiliar place was more easily "haunted" than a familiar place simply because there was less there to distract the memory.

I had never been productive in beautiful, serene settings. I needed noise, activity, some kind of external energy to get me going.

My mother didn't believe in germs but I did. Germs are something they made up to distract people from what they should really be worried about, she said. Germs are natural. It's the things people do you have to worry about.

As soon as we say, "But wait! I'm not perfect! I fail," we have taken our attention off God and allowed Satan to distract us with wrong thinking.

I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.

Alexander Pope said that amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ... Life should be more than keeping busy. Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not.

I can't think when you're in here, he said. What do you have to think about? Making!

Psychologists confirm that humans are incapable of giving their full attention to two tasks simultaneously.37 What people actually do is switch their attention from one task or platform to the next, and such task switching leads to a host of issues, including attention difficulties, poor decision making, and information overload.

Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

The very circumstances of our lives—so constant and so humdrum and routine, and yet the things that truly constitute the will of God for us each day—are also the very things that serve so to distract us, precisely because we are so involved in them, and cause us to lose sight, however momentarily, of this great truth.

They're up here, and they're lost. Once their obedience to Earth gave them meaning, and then their struggle against it, but now they don't know what to do. They're too distracted by their structures. They got their independence, but they don't know what it means, and they're looking for the things that will give it meaning.