Quotes About Distraction

Dear Theo, I've moved into town for a few days to, among other things, adjust to the depressing (boo hoo) prospect of no longer having mind-blowing sex with you. I'm sure you can find me if you try hard enough, but I have stuff to do, and I'm asking you to leave me the hell alone. Be a pal, okay? I'll handle the Witches of Peregrine Island, so stay away from them. A.

She stopped. It was as if her mind tripped on something. Her eye was caught by a dish-towel in the middle of the kitchen table. Slowly she moved toward the table. One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun—and not finished.

I looked at the book lying on a table. Though not a great reader myself, I knew that those who were - even Nora - could grow testy when one came between them and their books.

When Tyler emerged from Pod 3, he looked like he always does--distracted and handsome with a double helping of hot-artist sauce (73).

Well there you have it, just like drinking and driving, if you get behind a wheel with a phone in your hand and you cause a death, then chances are you will face very serious charges.

We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.

Besides, I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

Work helped distract him from his morbid state of mind. The library wasn't his biggest project, but he was exhilarated by it. He approached it with a kind of freedom he had never experienced before. He believed that its design could fuse everything he had learned and loved in the visual world into a monument to things he valued most: history, books, philosophy, design, aspiration, creativity.

Don't let an outside influence, especially one as powerful as the media, direct your energies to the wrong place.

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.

quiddling' (attending to the trivial tasks in life as a way of avoiding the important ones).

How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking." "The more you can distract yourself the better, " he says. "First thing tomorrow, we'll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.

Do you find this...distracting?

Why...do you find this...distracting?

Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

There are still moments when you can tell something slips into her brain and another world blinds her to us. But a few words from Finnick call her back

Panem et circenses quiere decir «pan y circo». El que lo escribió se refería a que, a cambio de tener la barriga llena y entretenimiento, su gente había renunciado a sus responsabilidades políticas y, por tanto, a su poder.

Distraction seems to be the last thing Finnick needs,

Panem et Circenses

People keep talking at me, talking, talking, talking

He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk. Not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to. She's lost in some daze of happiness. There are still moments when you can tell something slips into her brain and another world blinds her to us. But a few words from Finnick call her back.

Attention paid to the life, to the fact of life, to events and people, their enormous mattering--all the things that could not be more obvious when we're brought awake, but that really do get slurred away by distraction, sometimes for long periods, so that when the feeling does come back again, it seems like something that needs to be marked, sewn a la Blaise Pascal right into the lining of your coat--where you will always see it and remember

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.