Quotes About Distraction

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

We are not as strong as technology's pull.

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

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Misdirect ALL the time.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.