Quotes About Distraction

Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

It would be so easy to forget, so easy to be enticed by an old dream.

Of course Diana is taken with Jack. Why else would she ignore him?

She would not show her personality, and even if she did, nobody would see it; they would be too distracted by the thought of a mechanical cunt, endlessly absorbing discharge.

We meet wonderful people, but lose them in our busyness. We're, as the saying goes, all over the place. Steadfastness, it seems, is more about dogs than about us. One of the reasons we love them so much.

No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit many houses to find it. One person is talking, the other one is not really listening. someone can look like they are but they're actually thinking about something they want to say, or their minds are just wandering. Or they're looking at that little box people hold in their hands these days. And people get discouraged, so they quit trying. And the very quiet people, you may have noticed, are often the sad people.

The television has two instruments that control it. I get confused. The washer asks me, do you want regular or delicate? Honestly, I just want clean. Everything is like that. I won't even mention cell phones. I can turn on the light of the lamp beside my chair Where a book is waiting, but that's about it. Oh yes, and I can strike a match and make fire.

It is a silver morning like any other. I am at my desk. Then the phone rings, or someone raps at the door. I am deep in the machinery of my wits. Reluctantly I rise, I answer the phone or I open the door. And the thought which I had in hand, or almost in hand, is gone.

Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.

One wondering thought pollutes the day

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

The ideal way to ensure a healthy digestion is to go to the movies. The movie house is a place of truce, a non-combat area where, once the lights are dimmed and the film is running, the only reality is the movie itself. All the little realities of the individuals in the audience are canceled.

were distracted by something and lost train of your thought because you weren't in the present moment. Maybe you just couldn't think of anything interesting, funny, or entertaining to say.

If this happens, then the listeners' ears will shut off and they might start daydreaming about

However, do not confuse distraction with avoidance. When you avoid a distressing situation, you choose not to deal with it. But when you distract yourself from a distressing situation, you still intend to deal with it in the future, when your emotions have calmed down to a tolerable level. The

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.