Quotes About Distraction

We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

When it comes to your health, a time-and energy-consuming porn habit can really interfere with important self-care activities such as exercising, eating well, getting enough sleep, and even bathing and grooming. Sleep

Finding time alone with porn and searching out porn that "does the trick" drains time, attention, and energy that might otherwise be spent in social activities or with an intimate partner. Simon,

All right, all right,' he [Leo] says. 'I know it's hilarious that Mrs. Kelly thinks I clogged up her toilet, but we have more important things to focus on.

Creo que a veces tener demasiada información puede ser muy malo. Fuerza nuestra atención a vagar sin rumbo, hasta que ya no sabemos dónde tenemos la cabeza y no somos capaces de ver lo que tenemos delante de las narices

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn't leave a hangover.

GOD is connection, USB is distraction.

Ci separammo nell'età della vita in cui si ha meno tempo per il prossimo. L'odierna facilità degli scambi epistolari, in questo, non aiuta: chi scrive più lettere, nell'era della cartolina? Vedo già tutta la seconda metà del diciottesimo secolo e buon terzo del diciannovesimo scuotere la testa.

Don't let me think.

Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once.

Kids today have the attention span of high-speed lint.

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.

people who are simultaneously challenged by a demanding cognitive task and by a temptation are more likely to yield to the temptation.

you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

She did not forget about the meeting. She was completely focused on something else when the meeting was set and she just didn't hear you.

We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" by keeping the observers intensely busy counting passes.

You could not compute the product of 17 × 24 while making a left turn into dense traffic, and you certainly should not try. You

anything that occupies your working memory reduces your ability to think.

Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that

Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f.