Quotes About Distraction

For the first time in my life, I fully understand the expression "I can't hear myself think.

But at that moment, Danny decided not to think about it — or anything else

The Archons keep people distracted with pornography and drugs, with sports and alcohol, with material possessions, exotic vacations, artificial reality, addiction to various pleasures, along with dreams of the artificial technological paradise of: radical life-extension, transhumanism, nootropics and Brain Computer Interfaces.

There are two types of distraction: pleasure or terror.

The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion.

mientras su madre prometía a las alumnas enseñarles todo lo que una joven dama necesitaba para llevar las riendas de una casa. Como si una casa, pensó Marilyn, fuera algo que pudiera irse galopando si te distraías.

plugging her ears by filling her head with dreams.

Meditation, or samadhi, is connected with the idea of overcoming the constant search for entertainment.

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

It made my heart ache to think of this miserable trifling, in the streets of a city where every stone seemed to call to me, as I walked along, 'Turn this way, man, and see what waits to be done!' So I decoyed myself into another train of thought to ease my heart.

The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.

Consider one of the most useful verbs you'll ever see: To say. Novices often use different words to say said, especially when writing dialogue. So they say that a president argues, declares, and cajoles. A ballplayer stutters, barks, muses, and mumbles. A philosopher cogitates, elucidates, complains, and demurs. These synonyms disrupt the flow of ideas. Avoid that distraction; just say said. If someone says something interesting, you don't need to dress it up with synonyms.

Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind, out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.

Oh, I can't bother to write. If it's too long to telegraph I just let it go.

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

Unfortunately at this point I was interrupted by that dubiously time-saving device the telephone.

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio , as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.

People read books, didn't they, to get away from themselves, to escape the troubles of their lives?