Quotes About Distraction

La gente non legge forse i libri per fuggire da se stessa, e per tenere lontani i guai che ne scandiscono l'esistenza?

Routine is important, I think. A good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.

The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

Instead of watching the World Series, I was watching Steve Austin versus Dustin Rhodes in a 15-minute Broadway for the WCW TV title at Halloween Havoc 1991.

I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?'

As you know, I'm not on SnapFace and all that, so I don't really get those. I'm really just worried about getting our team ready to go.

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

You can't really get as much done when you're worried about looking gross.

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded of political divisions.

Cinema is a medium which makes you forget your worries and present a world which you can never be a part of.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

I've just stopped worrying about what the game plan looks like, how many targets am I going to have in a game, all of the stuff that would distract me when having fun out there on the football field. It's allowed me to be less stressed and enjoy my teammates more and go out there with a loose mentality and have more fun.

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.

I think it's a loss of energy to be worrying about other people's issues.

When I was starting a small printing shop in Wembley, I vividly remember coming out of the cinema, realising I had spent the two hours worrying about that month's payroll, rather than focusing on the film.

Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.