Quotes About Distraction

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

Look upon him who does not waver from his cause, no matter how insipid and ultimately irrelevant, and you shall find in him the meaning of dull-witted. The bhok'aral could have stared into my eyes forever, for there was no intelligence behind them. Behind his eyes, I mean. It was proof of my superiority that I found distraction elsewhere.

I can make you blind and senseless to them, but it'll be in your nature to fret about that strange emptiness. As if you're always on the edge of realization, but never able to reach it. It could drive you to distraction, Acquitor. Besides, the body remembers. You'll react to things you see, smell, taste, and you won't know why. It'll gnaw away at you. Your whole personality will change.

Don't get distracted, Ammanas. Laseen remains our target, and the collapse of the Empire she rules but never earned.

divert the discussion from its main intent and fasten upon some statement of mine which lacks a hair's-breadth of the truth and, under this hair, hide the fault of another which is as big as a ship's cable.

toxic addictiveness... news feed and other "infinite scrolls" the worst offenders..

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Varian, you are wasting time. There are things you must attend to. Those delightful little playthings of yours are here. Downstairs. They're in a terrible state. I really think you ought to have a word with them.

I expect you know, with your intuitive senses, that he's been after Lily." "Sort of, yes." "I need to talk to you about him, but not yet." He came back to Daniel, took his hands in his own. "Tonight is ours. I want to forget Othman, Lily, everything. Just for a while.

He suppressed any thought of Ishtahar and tried to concentrate on the lithe, young body against him.

He wished Owen would move his hands. It was impossible to think when they lay upon his body.

He hurled out toward the battlefield, and someone called his name. Called him back. He did not heed it.

She said she would welcome an evening's entertainment, away from the concerns of an addled soulscape.

The internet can be many things, of course. Too often it's a cesspool of distraction, a place we indulge in the modern sport of snark and schandenfrende, building the case for our own bigotries, where we mock and thereby dismiss the suggering of others.

She knew she could kill him in a variety of gory ways in less time than it took him to adjust the strange spectoculums that rested on the very end of his nose, but even this distraction didn't seem to help!

If the power rack and other basic equipment usually stand vacant, because an abundance of inferior gear distracts most members, you'll have little waiting time while you train.

Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic.

I didn't have a cell phone, and as a result I hadn't thought much about what one would do with them, other than irritate people around me.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

When I am working, I know this is my work so I can be focused for three hours, four hours, or whatever, and then outside I am a person like you or the children playing soccer in the street.