Quotes About Distraction

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

I can't concentrate in flats. I could go to the gym if I wore flats, I'd love to go to the gym, but I just can't get my head around the footwear.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

I want to take you away from this, I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues.

Você é popular agora, pode esquecê-lo. Deixe que ele suma da sua vida, Ok? - É, pode ser. É apenas uma velha mania. - Como roer as unhas? - Meredith pergunta, mudando de assunto para que eu comece a esquecer Lukas.

Some general advice about writing: WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

The whole point of having enemies abroad is getting to ignore the once back home.

16. Technology is a wonderful servant: Use your technological tools to confront yourself with what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important.

Resiste la tentación de gastar tiempo leyendo cosas que no son de valor inmediato o de relevancia para tu vida y trabajo.

The pain seems so much more difficult than the cookies. But it's not. The pain covered in cookies becomes pain covered in fat covered in more pain. Pain is hard. To go through and feel the emotion instead of avoiding/distracting takes courage. Sometimes

I can tell the difference between a Corvette and a Mustang. It was the woman sitting on the hood that got me flustered.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Try not to degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily silliness of social events and parties, until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.

If you cannot fashion your life as you would like, endeavour to do this at least, as much as you can: do not trivialize it through too much contact with the world, through too much activity and chatter. Do not trivialize your life by parading it, running around and displaying it in the daily stupidity of cliques and gatherings until it becomes like a tiresome guest. (As Much As You Can)

I've tried to read, but I can't make it through more than a paragraph at a time. The floor is littered with abandoned newspapers and yogurt pots.

to occupy her mind apart from Patrik and his family. His sister, Lotta, lived in Gothenburg

As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there's too much noise in my world.

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

I've recently discovered that cooking is a great way to distract yourself from your problems while providing a sense of accomplishment. You feel like you're doing something useful even though a few hours later you eat all the evidence.