Quotes About Distraction

Your mind desperately wants to be the BOSS. It needs you to be very, VERY BUSY with BS stuff

Money, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did.

I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through comedy, sarcasm and distraction. All families are complicated, but my home life was glaringly uncomfortable much of the time, and it was me that took the onus.

I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.

I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it's so irrelevant and uncontrollable.

Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

It's always a little gross when you're guarding someone and you can see, like, hair coming from underneath his jersey.

Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there's no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we've lost, we will forever be distracted with possessions and trinkets and title.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

Failure results from broken focus, and an average person with complete unwavering focus can achieve more than a team of geniuses with broken focus.

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.

If I'm not emotionally stable, should I put myself in a relationship? Because wouldn't that mean that I'm just using it as a distraction from my problems?

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.