Quotes About Distraction

Absolute focus is the key to all great human achievement. Its opposite, preoccupation, is the enemy of all achievement.

interrupting myself and my own dream over and over.

It would have served me right if I'd had a cerebral aneurysm on the spot. Instead, I forgot all about my foot--until we shoved the flat onto the stage. I think we broke my ankle. This is bullshit. I have finals to worry about.

every question mark adds to our cognitive workload, distracting our attention from the task at hand.

She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention.

una persona que utiliza un ordenador experimenta una «deriva cognitiva» si pasa más de un segundo entre hacer clic con el ratón y ver nuevos datos en la pantalla. Si pasan diez segundos, la mente de la persona está ya en otro sitio.

Not only is the distracted present a miserable place to be, it's also the worst kind of self-handicapping. Study after study shows that we're terrible multitaskers. By trying to improve performance by being everywhere and everywhen, we end up nowhere and never. The sad truth is that our lives are pulling us in every direction save the one where we're most effective.

By using the tanks to eliminate all distraction, entrain specific brainwaves, and regulate heart rate frequency, the SEALs are able to cut the time it takes to learn a foreign language from six months to six weeks.

The momentary confusion experienced by everyone in the vicinity when a cell phone rings and no one is sure if it is his/hers or not: conphonesion, phonundrum, ringchronicity, ringxiety, fauxcellarm, pandephonium.

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

But the muse won't always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she'd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.