Quotes About Distraction

She's so fucking beautiful it don't bear thinking about. I could hardly keep my eyes on the fucking road. I sort of felt like I was wasting time whenever I wasn't looking at her face.

The desire to succeed had left Vincent. He worked because he had to, because it kept him from suffering too much mentally, because it distracted his mind. He could do without a wife, a home, and children; he could do without love and friendship and health; he could do without security, comfort, and food; he could even do without God. But he could not do without something which was greater than himself, which was his life—the power and ability to create.

lo trataba con la simpatía distraída que normalmente se reserva para las mascotas ajenas.

Un día más de espera, uno menos de esperanza. Un día más de silencio, uno menos de vida. La muerte anda suelta por los pasillos y mi tarea es distraerla para que no encuentre tu puerta.

When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.

I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

You work on you doing your thing, sticking to your game plan, not letting stuff distract you and get you into a danger zone.

When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.

If I'm not writing, I can download a newer album everybody's making a fuss about. But when I'm writing, I keep myself in my own zone - I worry about listening to new music that'll inform me too much. I'm the kind of person who goes to another country and starts speaking in an accent after three days.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.