Quotes About Distraction

We are more likely to busy ourselves with finding things to do than in doing with our might the work that is in our hands already.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles

It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away. Some people were dying. Some people were busy. Some people were cleaning their houses while the war movie played on television.

Addie zipped open her computer case, found a USB cord, and tossed it through the back window so it landed on the seat next to him. "What's this for?" Kris asked, holding the cord. Darn. He found it too soon. "Thank you," she said. "I must have dropped it." "You just threw it in.

Listen to Me above the clamor of voices trying to distract you.

It is sometimes said that the first stages of the meditation process are the most difficult. The first distraction is the physical body. Sometimes there is real pain in sitting, and sometimes the ego just tries to distract us by creating itches we will want to scratch.

When I'm inside my house, it's like I'm right in the middle of a busy street. Each noise from down the block throws me off. If I have a thought and then the phone rings, I'm lost. Each tick of the clock drives me over the edge. People say, 'Just ignore it,' but I can't block it out.

There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.

Belay this. We don't have to decide anything now. Just...think on what I said. I didn't bring you in here for negotiations." "What did you bring me here for?" "Noise," she whispered, starting to pull his tunic off. "Lots and lots of noise.

I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again. I

50. A study conducted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012 concluded that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more working memory and sharper brains.

I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.

Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.