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Quotes About Distraction

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.
~ Eoin Colfer
A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
~ Evgeny Morozov
Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?
~ George Carlin
When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.
~ George R. R. Martin
We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
~ Isabel Allende
Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
~ J. I. Packer
In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.
~ Jaron Lanier
Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.
~ Jennifer Egan
Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.
~ Jesse James Garrett
You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.
~ Jesse Ventura
I spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace to feel too uncomfortable at this. I like to think of the Internet as an effective way to waste time and time.
~ Jim Gaffigan
If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web.
~ John C. Dvorak
How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
~ John Green
Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
At the end of the day all we ever need is something that helped pass the time and something that keeps time from passing.
~ Sanober Khan
Nothing consumes time like nothing.
~ Russell Ackoff
Look yourself... staring into the monitor... and your time is going to be lost like that...First secondsSecond minutesThird hours
~ Deyth Banger
Sometimes we are so upset about our meaningless worries that we keep losing focus of the goal all the time
~ Sunday Adelaja
Do not spend your time on vain things
~ Sunday Adelaja
Everyone has the same amount of hours per day, it's not that you don't have enough time, it's that you don't have a clear focus
~ Bridget English
She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else.
~ Zadie Smith, Swing Time
Solving Criminal case with wasting time on Internet, And your Future Cases will Pending Untouched Till the End and you never realize that.
~ Yaganesh Derasari
A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.
~ M.J. Pullen