Quotes About Distraction

Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention.

Sweat was running down my face. The next turn wasn't too bad, and I noticed an old barn on the roadside, the roof caved-in, the windows empty holes, but I had already been distracted for too long, and the abyss came so close that I cried out. I

The people went mad over these big games and didn't care if Caesar became dictator or not as long as he kept them amused. But

We live in a world of media overload and data smog, where everything distracts us from everything else. Yet underlying this noisy assault, our culture offers us nothing transcendent. No deeper meaning, no abiding hope. In my crisis, every facet of the contemporary world seemed part of a diabolical mechanism carefully designed to keep people from wondering about the real purpose of their endless frantic activity.

Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.

How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain.

Solo un disoccupato che ha appena pagato l'affitto riuscirebbe a leggere "Guerra e pace" senza saltare le descrizioni dei paesaggi.

Ero distratto... Scusa... Perché dici che io non ho più anima? Perché fingi di essere così profondo, e gli altri invece tutti merde?

Winston Churchill once said, "If you want to destroy them, distract them." And that's exactly what our adversary does; he distracts us completely from the greater cause, which is to pull together so we might know Christ and make Him known. Second

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

She had the opportunity to spend time at Jesus' feet, and, instead, she's doing the dishes. I've done that! I've been so blinded by the work that I've totally missed the real blessing in a situation. That's what we do when we think that money or wealth or possessions or God's favor and blessings come only from our performance.

When are we motivated to distract ourselves from unpleasant and worrisome thoughts? When we're not facing a clear and present danger. When the chips are not down. When the babbling of our cerebral cortex, rather than the self-defense of our amygdala, is center stage.

The more effort you make to get those thoughts out of your head, the more your mind will justify the effort by viewing the thoughts as dangerous. The truth is, thoughts simply aren't dangerous. Actions can be dangerous; thoughts can only be unpleasant. If thoughts were dangerous, the obituary pages would be banned. There's no such thing as a "killer joke." The more you use distraction, the more you strengthen this impression that thoughts can be hazardous.

we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

and turned back to his book, but something kept eating at him. When he realized he had read the same paragraph four times and still didn't know what it said, he decided it was time to solve the mystery.

Cartoon Network dot com, the shows are stupid, but at least they're entertaining and keep her calm.

The average North American has probably lavished one hundred times more attention on O. J. Simpson and Monica Lewinsky than he has on the new microtechnologies that are poised to antiquate his job and subvert the political system he depends on for unemployment compensation.

He tore it out and sat down to write a message. Pen was almost to paper when he stalled, as if he'd had the perfect thing to say but it floated out of his mind like vanished smoke. Sighing, he itched with irritation.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.