Quotes About Distraction

I found Dolores Haze at the kitchen table, consuming a wedge of pie, with her eyes fixed on her script. They rose to meet mine with a kind of celestial vapidity.

The greatest lapses in concentration come when we allow our minds to project what is about to happen or to dwell on what has already happened.

Do you mind? You're interrupting my training." "Ah." His dark blond brows quirked upward as his gaze followed the line of her body to where she still hung by her ankles. "What exactly is it you're training for up there, Cirque du Soleil?

He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.

but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.

Lee Gruenfield, novelist: It's human nature, this propensity in the face of the profound to be distracted by the trivial.

Buddha: 'Onward! Forward to the fund-raiser.' Mahavira: 'Onward! Forward to - wait a minute. Did I hear someone swat a mosquito?

Social media is a time-suck. Read a friggin' book once in a while.

Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

A person can "see" right through you, even if you are on the phone and not in person. Think for a minute when you had someone on the line, and you could tell they were distracted, multitasking, or speaking or whispering to someone else. How did you feel? Not great because this person was not devoting their time or attention on you.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

In her experience, it was those first sixty seconds, from the moment she flashed her P.I. license to the end of her pitch, that she was most likely to earn someone's cooperation. Older people were the easiest, if only because they were so often bored out of their minds that they welcomed any distraction. Men were curt, but they usually found the time, as long as she did the little-me, big-eye, big-chest thing. Women were more skeptical, because women spent their lives listening to bullshit.

listen, you know? Girls. They don't listen. They're in too much

Kids in my history class pulled out their cell phones and turned them on. I did the same, and as we all lifted our heavy backpacks, the doors of every classroom clanked open and out flowed the river of students with phones clapped to their ears. Soon the quad was a sea of backpacks and people staring nervously into space as they had conversations with people who weren't there.

mi] arma secreta para las conferencias telefónicas que sólo incluyen audio es hacer manualidades, usualmente, bordado en punto de cruz. Esto mantiene mis manos ocupadas y me impide leer artículos en internet, que es lo que solía hacer antes. Tiene que ser una manualidad que puedas abandonar en cualquier momento y que no exija demasiado. Para mí es mucho más fácil prestar atención cuando tengo las manos ocupadas.

On deadline days, though, "my best time is around eleven at night. There is absolutely no distraction to be had. You're pretty much shackled to your desk." She pauses. "There's something really nice about that.

Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.

Multitasking is, more often than not, inefficient single-tasking.

En efecto, aprender a aprovechar las mañanas es algo que, en nuestro distraído mundo, puede marcar la diferencia entre el logro y el caos.

por lo general vuelvo a mi escritorio y, en lugar de iniciar mi día de trabajo, me siento tentada a servirme una taza de café y navegar sin rumbo por internet.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

Like I need to play on the Wii when you're there willing to f*** me. Video games are what men invented to fill the sex void. Any man who chooses video games over sex deserves to live in his mother's basement with his mint-condition, in box Star Wars figurines and his real doll.

It's not like they could have done it if he'd been following his dick around like it found him water." "A dowsing dick?" Audra asked.