Quotes About Distraction

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

We need time to lose interest in things.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

I can't eat chicken and look at strippers at the same time.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Miss O'Hara - I must tell you something. I - I love you!' 'Um?' said Scarlett absently.

Traveling is a great distraction. Everyone has always traveled, the Greeks, the Phoenicians: it has always been so, all through history.

In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray.

worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

A new kind of American—a new kind of thinker and a new kind of citizen—needs to arise now. And quickly. We the People, We the Problem For too many decades, Americans have been chronically distracted by less important things, not bothering to engage in serious self-examination.