Quotes About Distraction

Keep yourself as busy as you can. Try and forget. But even with 7 billion other distractions... you don't forget me.

I want to be the thought that takes your mind off the road and your hand off the steering wheel.

Being hypnotized by content is a disease.

When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.

Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.

If you need to listen to music while walking, don't walk; and please don't listen to music.

Out of sight, out of mind: we harbor a natural, even physical, scorn of the abstract.

The fallacy is that what one may need to know in the real world does not necessarily match what one can perceive through intellect: it doesn't mean that details are not relevant, only that those we tend (IYI-style) to believe are important can distract us from more central attributes of the price mechanism.

best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.

minimize time spent reading newspapers

we do not have the mental power to absorb all information and tend to be confused by details)

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time

Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal (the

Our resources (both cognitive and scientific) are limited, perhaps too limited. Those who distract us increase the risk of Black Swans.

Ninety-five percent of the employee's mind will be on company politics…

El dar cuerda a alguien se decía en nuestra casa «dar cordel». Gino, efectivamente, daba poco cordel, porque siempre estaba leyendo, y cuando se le dirigía la palabra respondía con monosílabos y sin levantar la cabeza del libro.

Soon finding, however, that either she or the image was unreal, she turned elsewhere for better pastime.

There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

Lev looks at Risa, almost afraid to ask the obvious question. Finally he says, 'Uh...why do we have a baby?' 'Ask him ,' says Risa. Stone-faced, Conner looks out of the window. 'They're looking for two boys and a girl. Having a baby will throw them off.' 'Great,' snaps Risa. 'Maybe we should all pick up a baby along the way.

What does she fear in idleness?

People can read anything, but no one does. All they do is play games and watch cat holograms.

Her eyes are open and her mind is somewhere else.

I like the idea of communication tethering you to a single spot, Tenkamenin told Anastasia. It forces you to give every conversation the attention it deserves.

You're confusing boredom with obsession.