Quotes About Distraction

I don't have an iPhone or anything. There's no TV. It's so easy to become distracted.

If I'm thinking about work, it's easier to block the irrational thoughts out of my mind.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

I think records are irrelevant, but I'm being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don't feel like it's irresponsible, I think sometimes you really need to take a breather.

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

Simple jewelry is best - bigger pieces get in the way when I'm baking.

Hoje em dia, (…) chegámos a um ponto em que os cidadãos se distraem com as teorias conspirativas mais bizarras sobre o modo como o governo está a ser manipulado por elites obscuras para lhes retirar os seus direitos, e armam-se em antecipação do momento em que terão de se defender do Estado pela força.

Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

Recycling has been little more than a comforting distraction from the stuff that really matters.

Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The

Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: "What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

it's hard to fool an ape. One reason for that is the absence of distraction by the spoken word. We attach such importance to verbal communication that we lose track of what our bodies say about us.

Books are a narcotic.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Televisio is a vehicle that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.