Quotes About Distraction

Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: They distract the mind from food! You

Women however charming, have this disadvantage - they distract the mind from food.

We have a choice: to Hear God's Voice or just Hear the Noise.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

innovation is all about being distracted —distracted from the way we normally think about things.

I wonder if I'm the only one in the running business with this system of forgetting that I'm running because I'm too busy thinking.

I feel like it's easy to get lost in your own world and get distracted, and sometimes seeing things from different perspectives helps you appreciate your life a little bit more.

Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone is constantly asking me to do something? I don't think Plato would have been able to write his dialogues if he had a wife who kept bugging him to pass the pita bread.

I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.

I would love for my phone to scream if I am about to miss an important thing in my life and never bother me if I'm doing something very important and the information coming in is less important than what I'm doing.

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

I always keep my phone on vibrate. Ringtones give me anxiety.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

I put my phone on 'do not disturb' a lot.

I would pass time looking at Justin Bieber on my phone.

I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.