Quotes About Distraction

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

You're either reading a book or you're not.

In later studies, Mischel discovered that the successful children were those who looked away from the temptation or were able to think about other enjoyable activities.

The controlled system allows people to think about long-term goals and thereby escape the tyranny of the here-and-now, the automatic triggering of temptation by the sight of tempting objects.

and what about you? Do you wanna make out? - A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.

Societies work very hard to prevent people from seeing through the veil of myth, fantasy and propaganda which is used to hide the realities of health and disease. For example, the simple fact that the rich live longer and healthier lives than the poor is so easily ignored; society distracts us to consider instead the individual misfortunes and tragedies occurring to poor people.

Your phone is not your problem. The problem is when we let our phone captivate us so significantly with the unimportant that we ignore the important all around us.

I was walking down the street. Something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.

La mejor manera de apartar las preocupaciones es tener ocupaciones, ser activo. Ocuparnos de las cosas en lugar de preocuparnos por ellas. Nuestras aficiones, nuestra vida profesional o el deporte nos ayudan a tener la mente ocupada4 en cosas productivas para no divagar en miedos absurdos que no aportarán nada bueno a nuestra existencia.

Gente repleta de todo, llena de cosas, pero sin brújula, que recorren su existencia consumiendo, entretenidos en cualquier asuntillo y pasándolo bien, sin más pretensiones.

adolescente, que aún no está acostumbrado a renunciar —no sabe decir no—, quiere abarcar demasiadas cosas y se dispersa, y la dispersión es la mejor manera de no avanzar, por pérdida de energías.

Del mismo modo hay que saber descansar, dejar lo que uno está haciendo y poner la cabeza en otra cosa que relaje, distraiga, divierta.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

When I worked as a programmer, that meant eight straight hours of programming without interruption. That was a good day. In contrast, if I was interrupted with questions, process, or—heaven forbid—meetings, I felt bad.

brain is like a shortwave radio, mostly static that occasionally finds the station, but even then the sound isn't always clear.

had less than twenty-four hours to do it. His musings were interrupted

Why do we think the face has turned away which only looked elsewhere?

Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and "distraction.

So?" Violet's mew interrupted his thoughts. "Are we finishing this or are you going to stare at me all day?

I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)

Don't hold my hand in here. It's hard for me to concentrate when you do." "You do realize that makes it even more tempting.

it. Oh, crap. He'd forgotten all about Ellen, but