Quotes About Distraction

I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only when I started did I think, 'Sheesh, what have I gotten into?' I had to go after it fully; I just had to.

It sounds cheesy, but have a hobby you like. Fill yourself with that, distract yourself, get away from it completely - go hiking, play scary German card games, or create things.

The season is long. When I'm off, I try to distract myself from hockey.

Just acting on someone else's set feels like a holiday, almost.

I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.

I'm honored to be compared to some great running backs, but I try to block that out and be myself.

Katie McGrath got me hooked on the 'Great British Bake Off.' It's ruining my life.

Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

There's a lot of players that go to a city, pick up a check, go to practice, and just worry about what's happening in their households, and you can't blame them.

When I fight, people are going to watch me fight. They're not gonna turn the channel to 'Real Housewives of OC' like they will other fighters.

I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.

People whispered comfort about Marian being called back to heaven, but my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. Stop

and someone was talking. I wanted to stop thinking

I have a dash of ADD, and I've always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word: to lose clear vision, especially from looking at bright light. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra.

You can't get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek. One