Quotes About Distraction

It's easy to spend - especially in this day and age - to spend your time not being in the present. It's very easy to be way ahead. What's tomorrow and the day after that?

I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way.

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn't working. ~pg. 317~

You're a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin' at his woman than eatin' , he's in trouble.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.