Quotes About Distraction

Sometimes we act in order not to see.

At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat's way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable.

and work meant an end to my diet of lotus flowers.

today we no longer value silence at all. Electronic gadgets—cell phones, laptops, and so on—have created a world of constant stimulation.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can't slow down? They can't slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," he began, "you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward." Bunyan's muckraker, he suggested, "typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing.

is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists...

I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

She wish she knew what it was she was trying not to think about

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. Zaphod

I am here,' said the voice slowly. 'My body wanted to come but it's a bit busy at the moment. Things to do, people to see.' After what seemed like a sort of ethereal sigh it added, 'You know how it is with bodies.

He was staring at the instruments with the air of one who is trying to convert Fahrenheit to centigrade in his head while his house is burning down.

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can. Mom... Dad... I'm okay. I am not being starved, or beaten, or unnecessarily frightened.

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

I have my books. I don't live in the actual world.

His mind, shrinking from reality, ran for safety along these unimportant details.

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

She must lead a very quiet life. No exertion. No fatigue. But, of course, she must not be allowed to brood. She must be kept cheerful and the mind well distracted.