Quotes About Distraction

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

I have a hard time with free time.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.

Idle time is the devil's play.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

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

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.