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Quotes About Distraction

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
~ Shirley Henderson
No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.
~ Steve Ballmer
Your private life, exposed, has a lingering effect on your mind and your game.
~ Tiger Woods
Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
~ Umberto Eco
I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it.
~ Jon Lovitz
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.
~ Frederick Lenz
Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.
~ Frederick Lenz
TMS is a strategy of the brain to keep unpleasant thoughts and emotions from rising from the unconscious into the conscious mind. The brain, through established physiologic pathways, creates pain as a distraction. By focusing our attention on physical symptoms, we keep these painful thoughts and emotions repressed. This is a very effective strategy, as there is an absolute epidemic of mindbody disorders in our society.
~ John E. Sarno
There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems." Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts
~ John E. Sarno
Para multiplicar el tiempo necesitamos tener más presencia de Dios. Entonces trabajaremos con más paz e intensidad y con más ganas de hacer bien las cosas. Nuestro tiempo se multiplicará como resultado porque hacemos las cosas bien, con más interés y ganas de hacerlo correctamente. De esta forma nos distraeremos menos y perderemos menos el tiempo».
~ John F. Coverdale
Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.
~ John Flanagan
And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!
~ John Galsworthy
the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...
~ John Geddes
I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.
~ John Green
You cannot see the wood for the trees.
~ John Heywood
you are a ring tone on the phone I didn't answer
~ john j geddes
Even the great anxiety of writing can be stilled for the eight minutes it takes to eat a pineapple popsicle.
~ John Jeremiah Sullivan
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.
~ John Medina
And Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.
~ Elin Hilderbrand