Quotes About Distraction

You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

I like keeping my mind as far away from money and the material aspects of my job as possible.

Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

While you numb, nuts are chasing pokemons, I'll be chasing the money.

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Don't be afraid to let go of your past……it's only but a distraction to your present.

come on, you shouldn't continue to disturb your mind with everything. Avoid thinking about anything at all, leave something, keep something and think about something!

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

Music helps not the toothache.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?