Quotes About Distraction

I sometimes wear headphones even though I'm not listening to anything just so I'm left alone. It's the next best thing to wearing a 'Do Not Disturb' sign.

Therefore, dissociation and distraction function as survival skills that offer a sense of distance when we're overwhelmed by stimuli.

But, nevertheless, if there is even the slightest recognition, liberation is easy. Should you ask why this is so—it is because once the awesome, terrifying and fearful appearances arise, the awareness does not have the luxury of distraction. The awareness is one-pointedly concentrated.

Doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs, tinkers, tailors, soldiers, spies - everyone was busier and more important than a mere homicide investigator. People did so hate to be bothered by sordid stuff like crime.

their heads popping up prairie-dog style from their cubes.

Code writers, like engineers generally, tend to get sidetracked by interesting but irrelevant conundrums.

His short attention span was both endearing and aggravating. His mind would wander so much that those who really needed to speak with him tried to isolate him from distractions. "To talk to Gordon you had to take him in the car, drive and not let him turn on the radio," one said.

He sat on his shelf as still as a stone, and half his mind was somewhere else. There, fires broke out; there were cries of terror both human and feline; he was responsible and not responsible. It was long ago but not so far away.

El empeño principal del diablo es hacer que el hombre piense sólo en las cosas de la tierra.

The second man I meet is Andrew, and he has dirty fingernails so I can't notice if he is nice or not. I can even eat my brown sugar and butter crêpes because, oy gevalt , I'm so distracted by these fingernails. I mean, what was he doing before he came on this date? Competitive gardening? Burying the last woman he dated?

Dead Sea was her comfort game. She decided she'd go back to her apartment and kill zombies for a while.

But in the end, it had been a long day, and it was easier to stare at her phone for the next twelve minutes than confront a driver, IRL. When she reached her destination, she rated him one star.

The trick could sometimes be her phone, her (and everyone else's) fortress of solitude, and a practiced absorption in it.

Had I not spent more than sixty percent of time thinking about sex in my early twenties, I could have reached sixty percent higher than what I am now! The red interest hidden in the black!

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you.

Do not be sidetracked. A good referee will have many ways to distract an expedition, many things to draw attention, but ignore them if at all possible.

In a highly formalized organization, individuals tend to be hyperfocused on their own, unit-specific goals. Everything else is a distraction. Unfortunately, the future seldom lines up with the org chart. Parochialism not only makes new opportunities hard to spot, but hard to resource. Unit leaders often feel they have insufficient resources to deliver on their own commitments, let alone someone else's. Share resources, and you risk missing your targets.

Until my ONE Thing is done—everything else is a distraction.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.