Quotes About Distraction

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

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.

Phones," he says to Andrea. "They'll be the death of civilization.

he could not give her any attention. She complained, he heard her complaining, but he could do nothing about it. He was single-minded, he always had been

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

For the last week I have not been at all well, and indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead of after tea, where I contrived to abstract myself out of a good deal of pain into Lord Byron's Life by Moore. To-day this abstraction is not necessary; I am much better; and, indeed, little remains of the indisposition but the vulgar fractions of a cough and cold.

Just the sort of stuff that doesn't seem important to deal with right now when you're busy, until you can't get to your skin because you're seal inside an isolation film and it's the only thing you can think about.

I couldn't hold a thought. I couldn't accomplish a task without being distracted. And I couldn't keep my temper at all.

She stroked her chin with a thumb and a forefinger. No wonder people were staring; the effect was distracting.

Anxiety was a distraction I did not need.

He could not be distracted by his darling girls when he must be about seducing villains.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.

The iPhone mind-wandering study showed that when people are not thinking about what they're doing, they're just not as happy as when they're engaged. As

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

And then he only had eyes for the pie. Watch any man, he could be ninety years old and drooling spit, but at the sight of homemade pie every last one of his wits will spring to attention.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

Charity didn't mean to waste the entire afternoon. But her favorite daytime drama was on the telly. It was always the same, she thought, stretching out on the bed to watch. The sex got her interested first, and then the story. Before long she was totally hooked, and deep into the intricate plots and the glamorous goings-on. And afterwards, she just felt drained. She was sound asleep by the time Lady Margaret came home.

Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin.

a TV in the bedroom increases the overall number of

fill the Hush Hour with gentle, relaxing music or white noise (a recording of rainfall, ocean waves, or static sound). This music or white noise can be comforting and also mask any noises that can distract your child

Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.

Remember I am not temptation to you, but everything is which inclines you away. Nor are you to me, but my entire goal.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

He wanted to show that man has to return to his most basic nature in order to discover his true self and that everything that is not part of that self, including property and normal social and political obligations, was a useless distraction.