Quotes About Distraction

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.

You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.

If you're not careful, the Internet will gobble up your entire life.

The Internet is a big distraction.

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.

I limit how often I let technology interrupt my day, which given my line of work, isn't always easy.

I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.

Like I always say - be where you're at. For me, that means that when I'm home with my family and the phone rings with a number I don't recognize, I don't pick it up; it could be an important call, or it could be a radio interview that I would usually make time for.

There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction." He said, "Love always is.

You can't read Proust at the Laundromat.

With great effort, she dragged her attention away from the book

Using food to cope with emotions comes in degrees of intensity. For some, food is simply a means of distraction from boring activities or a filler for empty times. For others, it can be the only comfort they have to get through a painful life.

Incompetence will show in the use of too many words. The reader's first and simplest test of an author will be to look for words that do not function; that contribute nothing to the meaning OR that distract from the MOST important factor of the meaning to factors of minor importance.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.

atendía la vida como quien come distraído.

From inside the thick of her grief, Lydia read. She read without lifting her eyes...only pausing when the ache in her shoulder or the pins and needles in her foot forced her to lift her eyes from the page, shift the pillows and turn the other way. Then her gaze would fall on the wallpaper with its pattern of roses and she would blink and wonder where in the world she was. Then, as she started to remember, thank God, there was the book, and she would slip under again, a sigh in her throat.

La vida para mí se hacía demasiado larga. La literatura, por sí sola, no me distraía.

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.