Quotes About Distraction

fences, walls, and billboards. I didn't try to read them. I couldn't. My head spun as it had in my drinking

Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions." Ben shot Hi a stern look. "No running commentary." "Your loss," Hi said. "To the pimp ride!

He said to tell you that when you're up to your ass in alligators, it's a little difficult to remember that your main objective was to drain the swamp.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

Clay Shirky summed it up in 2008, and he's still right: "The problem isn't information overload, it's filter failure." Our

These days you couldn't keep things separate even in your mind. If we could only disconnect—

Dada la facilidad con la que nos distraemos, unos simples minutos cada día pueden ser un poderoso medio de reconectar con nosotros mismos, fortaleciendo la conciencia de quiénes somos bajo la superficie. Como la mayoría de las cosas que merece la pena hacer, no es fácil, pero siempre nos espera una recompensa.

When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don't know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn't really care.

I could not focus on any one subject for long because my mind was cotton candy, wisps and swirls and strands, without substance.

If I thought I was only doing one thing—running—I would be naïve. Even in my leisure, when strapped to a web-enabled device, I'm furiously multitasking and, in a very positive way, highly distracted.

The noise kept up and did not stop. My head rang. I saw Shepherd take the chewing gum from his mouth, break it into two, and stick it in both ears. He kept working.

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

Debería haber pensado antes en tomar un taxi, porque no hay como desplazarse en un vehículo manejado por otro para salir de uno mismo.

I realise how much time I used to spend with my head in a book, filling the emptiness of my world and letting the pages distract from the darkness in the shadows behind me.

it took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn't know, but there you had it. "I'm not," he said for the umpteenth time, "a dog.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call "I" behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

Jed knew that trying to stand between a hormone-fueled teenager and his love interest was akin to walking between a grizzly sow and her cubs, and Walt didn't look dumb enough to do either. Walt's distraction would help Jed, though, and that's all that mattered.

Era domingo. Se fumasse, acenderia agora um cigarro para ficar com ar de pessoa distraída. Mas assim tão sem vícios e portanto sem ter sobre o que derramar a distração que desejava, ai - assim ficava tão solta. Perdi até o sono, suspirou, como se o sono fosse a sua última reserva de segurança. E estou compreguiça de trabalhar e tenho vontade de falar uma palavrão, que merda também.

The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.

It's easy to be seduced by the small amounts of profit offered by the latest app or service, but then forget its cost in terms of the most important resource we possess: the minutes of our life.

This strategy is classic digital minimalism. By removing your ability to access social media at any moment, you reduce its ability to become a crutch deployed to distract you from bigger voids in your life. At the same time, you're not necessarily abandoning these services. By allowing yourself access (albeit less convenient) through a web browser, you preserve your ability to use specific features that you identify as important to your life—but on your own terms.