Quotes About Distraction

Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction.

one could drown in irrelevance.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

Cecilia knew she could not go on wasting her days in the stews of her untidied room, lying on her bed in a haze of smoke, chin propped on her hand, pins and needles spreading up through her arm as she read her way through Richardson's Clarissa .

He was supposed to be reading, but all he could do was watch her and love her bare arms, her Alice band, her straight back, the sweet tilt of her chin as she tucked the instrument under it...

If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis.

intent on her phone, reading, tapping, frowning in the contemporary manner.

Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door.

Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of not thinking.

El telediario no está hecho para informar, está hecho para distraer.

If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far." I froze.

The sound of my name in his voice stopped me in midturn. I don't know how the hell he did it, but whenever he said my name, it cut through all other distractions and made me pause, as if he'd clenched me to him and kissed me.

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.

I don't want to go too deep, but football and 'Dragon Ball Z' were the two things that, when I was going through a hard time when I was younger, kind of gave me an escape.

When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.

When I was younger I used to read everything. 'Why is this guy saying this, why is this article saying this.' That's one of the things Coach Saban has taught me, he does not listen or read anything that's out there at all. He says 'why am I going to waste my time?'

White ball cricket can be taxing on bowlers and can be a distraction for a youngster, too.

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.