Quotes About Distraction

Sometimes agents were so influenced by one another that they lost track of their goal and did something else instead. In that sense, the program was very childlike, unpredictable and easily distracted. As one programmer put it - trying to program distributed intelligence is like telling a five year old kid to go to his room and change his clothes. He may do that, but he is equally likely to do something else and never return.

You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours.

Tyler. His handsome, lion-eyed ravagement. His capacity for devotion. Which is so sexy. Why do so many gay men lack that? Why are they so distracted, so in love with the idea of more and more and then more, again?

You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours.

Some of us, alas, are destined to find our escapes in novels, not life.

Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?

YOU-reka! When you keep your hands and brain occupied—whether with video games, gardening, or removing a spleen—it means you're putting your brain into the state you want: not thinking about eating and not automatically reaching for something to put in your mouth.

When a population is distracted by trivia," wrote Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, "when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk. Culture death is a real possibility.

I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again.

think of baseball, because you don't

All around him men hunched over their BlackBerrys. They wanted

A driver talking on a cell phone was four times as likely as a driver who wasn't to be involved in a crash, whether or not he held the phone in his hands

train were harder than usual to ignore. They were

He said they wanted a place where they could just sit and talk to each other all day long without the distraction of a university, said Slovic

Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar had not been opened up to the date to which it should have been.

This also turns out to be a pretty good summary of the drug war, which, besides doing so much to erode our liberties and fill our prisons, served to distract us from reckoning the true toll of the opiates we happened to classify as legal.

There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be the story in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object preventing us from seeing the truth of what is really going on beneath the surface of our attention, what will most deeply affect people's lives in time.

We gardeners have always had trouble heeding Henry Ward Beecher's sound nineteenth-century advice, that we not be "made wild by pompous catalogs from florists and seedsmen.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.

It's the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it behind you, you take the situation for what it is and you control what you control and the people that do that the best are usually the more successful team, person, individual, what have you.

When I am skating, economics is far away. I always return refreshed and ready to carry on.

It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.