Quotes About Distraction

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

It is difficult to walk, talk, eat, exercise, make love, or drive an automobile while reading.

Word of caution: try not to get so caught up in the action that you shoot the idiot who keeps knocking on your front door! "He should have waited until the commercial break," won't earn you an acquittal for justifiable homicide.

The senior matriculation exams obliterate everything. Even, it seems to me, if a war were on in Canada, I'd be found studying like deaf Beethoven playing his piano while Vienna burned.

Cualquier pasión o fe sirven a la felicidad en la medida en que son capaces de distraernos, en la medida de la inconsciencia que puedan darnos.

Habló sin mirarme, porque la gente no suele mirarse dentro de un carro. Como el fuego o una pantalla de cine, el panorámico de un carro atrae las miradas, las acapara, las domina. Por eso dentro de un carro es más fácil decirse ciertas cosas.

Peratta y Peloso se habían ido detrás de un culo, o poco más. Pero seguía pensando que las milanesas tenían menos contraindicaciones. Pobres hijos de puta, pensó o se dijo mientras masticaba.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

Tell me," he said, smiling, "Would you really have danced with the duke?" She relaxed, the danger past. "Yes. But he was my second choice. You, sir, didn't seem to have much interest in me." "Ah. There you are very wrong." His smile faltered, and then he began to lean forward, as if he would kiss her again. But the door opened, and a loud group of young men pushed into the courtyard, filling the garden with glimmering light and sound as they laughed amongst themselves.

Kathrin dachte, dass es manchmal schöner war, der Stimme eines fremden Schriftstellers zu lauschen, als einen real existierenden im Haus zu haben. Nach dem Abendessen würde Wolfi seinen Krieg gegen sich selbst endlich an den Schreibtisch verlegen, und Kathrin könte sich mit einem Buch in ihren Sessel setzen und die Arbeit eines Autors genießen, von dessen Krisen sie nichts wissen musste.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

He smacked the heel of his hand against his forhead, as if that could knock the mental picture out of his head. Hell, he though irritably, he didn't want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window.

What part of his being hunched over a sheaf of papers was so interesting to her? Because that was all he had been doing all week. Perhaps he ought to liven up the spectacle. Really, it would be the kind thing to do. She had to be bored silly. He could jump on his desk and sing. Take a bite of food and pretend to choke. What would she do, then? Now that would be an interesting moral dilemma.

He tried not to notice that her hair was loose. He tried not to see that she was wearing her nightclothes. They were demure, yes, but still meant to be removed, and his gaze kept dipping to the silken hem, which brushed the top of her foot, allowing him a tantalizing peek at her toes. Good God, he was staring at her toes. Her /toes/. What had his life come to?

He poked her shoulder. 'Ellie? Ellie?' 'What? Oh, I'm sorry.' Her face colored, even though she knew he couldn't possibly read her thoughts. 'Just woolgathering.' 'Darling, you were practically hugging a sheep.

unsuccessfully to concentrate on his work. Norwood, the only servant

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

You cannot be insightful if you're deluged with information.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.