Quotes About Distraction

Worry divides the mind.

No deje que la comezón por las cosas materiales ni el oído para los aplausos le descarrile de los designios que Dios tiene para usted.

But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.

Saturday, December 12, 8 p.m., the Loft I WILL PASS ALGEBRA THIS SEMESTER, and NOTHING IS GOING TO DISTRACT ME FROM STUDYING FOR THE FINAL!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday, December 12, 9 p.m., the Loft I just had to go out and see the part where Bruce Willis throws the explosives down the elevator shaft, but now I am back to work.

What to Do During Algebra O what to do during Algebra! The possibilities are limitless: There's drawing, and yawning, and portable chess There's dozing, and dreaming, and feeling confused. There's humming, and strumming, and looking bemused. You can stare at the clock. You can hum a little song. I've tried just about everything to pass the time along.

John lowered the book he'd been reading. Im sorry. Were you speaking to me? I know you were listening, I said in disgust, taking the book from him and tossing it over the side of the bed. You couldn't possibly have been reading that. You were holding it upside down.

Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.

If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.

Could there be three other words in the English language more effective at striking terror deep within the heart than Got a minute?

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot out of him. Did they serve lunch in Hell? Should he have packed a snack? Why was he suddenly thinking about food?

It made me wonder, if everyone is so connected to their phones-talking and texting and whatever else it is they do all day long-how do they ever have time to notice the beauty of God's creation all around them? How do they have time to connect to God?

The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right?

As he trilled, as he prattled, as he indulged in his spontaneous 'conceits', as he gestured, fop-like and grotesque, his magnified eyes skidding to and fro behind the lenses of his glasses, like soap at the bottom of a bath, his brain was often other-where, and these days it was well occupied.

Do you really think men and women thanked you for bringing them peace? They just became bored with your peace and so brewed their own trouble to fill the boredom. Men don't want peace, Arthur, they want distraction from tedium

A man whose house is burning to the ground does not carry water to his neighbour's fire

I never found that love, either when it prospered or when it did not, interfered in the slightest with my intellectual concentration.

temptation to be interesting rather than technically effective is a dangerous one.

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There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day. A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of 'pleasure'. That is to say he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide; the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

it is difficult to throw oneself into other people's petty concerns when one's own are very absorbing and interesting.

I am saying this for your own benefit … so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction. 1 Corinthians 7:35

Sometimes ministry can be the biggest distraction to the pursuit of true intimacy with God