Quotes About Distraction

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.

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

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Let's just say, he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

Jer, lakse je podneti i najneprijatniji pogled nego oci koje uporno gledaju pored vas.

Peabody: "When a guy's in the hospital, he wants toys." Eve: "When a guy gets a splinter in his toe, he wants toys.

Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure.

over, shoes just— Hey!" She marched over, picked

examined her nails, picked idly at

This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let your attention wander for a moment!

Tell you what, you let me go, and I'll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I'm slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.

Life has gotten in the way of our life.

I can't… I find that I can't concentrate. On anything. I can't really…" Rhage's eyes drifted to Zsadist. "How do you live with it? All the anger. The pain. The…