Quotes About Distraction

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

S? ?? ?ott? ?? ??r?, ?? ??r?h?? ????? ?oss? d?str?r?? d?? ?ostr? ????b?.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

one burst after another as my wife turned in her sleep. I was a single monkey trying to type the opening lines of my Hamlet

My Hero Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.

Alerg?m f?r? încetare spre pr?pastie dup? ce am aÅŸezat ceva în faÅ£a noastr? pentru a ne împiedica s? o vedem.

What people want is not the easy peaceful life that allows us to think of our unhappy condition, nor the dangers of war, nor the burdens of office, but the agitation that takes our mind off it and diverts us. That is why we prefer the hunt to the capture.

138] Diversion. It is easier to bear death when one is not thinking about it than the idea of death when there is no danger. (166)

133] Diversion. Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

O rei está rodeado de pessoas cujo único pensamento é divertir o rei, e evitar que ele pense em si mesmo. Porque ele será infeliz, embora rei, se pensar em si mesmo.

We're not looking for this soft, peaceful existence which allows us to think about our unfortunate condition, nor the dangers of war or the burden of office, but the bustle which distracts and amuses us—The reason why we prefer the hunt to the kill. That is why we like noise and activity so much. That is why imprisonment is such a horrific punishment. That is why the pleasure of being alone is incomprehensible.

People get distracted by worries and sadness, and have to struggle to see anything else. They have to work hard to hold on to beauty, to hold fast to dreams and words

In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones—another ancient vacancy profoundly responsible for leisure—they had time for everything: time to think, to talk, time to read, time to wait for a lady!

In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones- they had time for everything: time to think, time to talk, time to read,time to wait for a lady!

It was annoying how her voice, though never loud, pursued him. No matter how vociferous were other voices, all about, he seemed unable to prevent himself from constantly recognizing hers.

People chatted on cell phones and pecked away at keyboards. They had buds in their ears and listened to music or watched videos on their devices. Whatever happened to a cup of coffee and a newspaper? Hell, he thought, whatever happened to newspapers?

He picks up a book and begins to read, but he is not attending to what he reads and he has got to page 22 before he discovers it is a novel – the sort of work which above all others he most despises – and he puts it down in disgust.

What's a little calming distraction for your girlfriend in the midst of world entertainment domination?" "I'd stop the world from spinning for you." That silly line oddly touched me. "I love you." "Liked that one, did you?

The last time I called, you were too busy to give me more than a minute of your time." "I've got things to take care of, Eva. Give me a break." "Sure thing. How about now?" I hung up and dropped my phone back into my bag.

Keep thinking those thoughts and you'll be late again