Quotes About Distraction

Porque tener hijos es el opio del pueblo.

The music and laughter eat away at your thoughts.

And there are days when we will be distracted, tired, sick, bored, or even downright tired of praying. That's normal; we are, after all, only human. But God has the victory—He just wants our heart and our willingness to pray. He will do the rest!

Charlotte. Kate attempted to distract the child from her endless questions and held up the glass tube. This is wulfsyl. I can't be sure it's correct. The girl looked at Kate with excitement, then asked hopefully, Will it stop me from eating someone? Kate looked uncomfortable. We believe that if you take it now, you will n ever have to eat someone. But what if I do? Eat Malcolm, Simon suggested.

On the one hand, if you have a strategy that really is working, you need to deliberately focus to keep everyone working together in the right direction. At the same time, however, that focus can easily cause you to dismiss as a distraction what could actually turn out to be the next big thing.

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.

As much as you feel as though you need to find some relevant bit of information for your story to work, research distracts from your writing and inevitably leads you down a rabbit hole of websites and articles and, more than likely, the temptation of checking your email or your Facebook profile or the baseball scores on ESPN.

Like a prisoner without hope of parole she took what entertainment she could find to ease the passage of time.

Man is as much a slave to his immediate surroundings now as he was when he lived in tree-huts. Give him the highest, the most exciting thoughts about man's place in the universe, the meaning of history; they can all be snuffed out in a moment if he wants his dinner, or feels irritated by a child squalling on a bus.

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.

Why do you watch TV shows — and keep watching them — if you don't like them? Terence asked. Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. After

True faith is too serious to have room for the distraction of passion.

We were a made-for-TV family. Every new channel added to our lineup, every magnificent home-entertainment advance increased the possibility that we wouldn't have to talk to one another.

We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.

The reason a falcon is hooded is exactly the reason a falconer is not: the birds can see so well that they would most likely be distracted by other prey much further away. The falconer hoods the bird and waits. He wants the falcon to only see what he sees.

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

When a person cannot find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure

Si el hombre en medio de todo este torbellino de estímulos quiere sobrevivir y resistir a los medios de comunicación de masas, debe saber qué es o no lo importante, qué es o no lo fundamental; en una palabra, qué es lo que tiene sentido y qué es lo que no lo tiene.

I know this room too well - this view too well - I am getting it all out of focus, because I can't walk through it.

But for ourselves, we resent teachers. Let a man get up and say, 'Behold, this is the truth,' and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

the only sign that Katharine gave of abstraction was to forget to help the pudding. She looked so like her mother, as she sat there oblivious of the tapioca