Quotes About Distraction

Keep your eye off the ball. Ninety percent of what's important happens away from the focus of attention.

Travers shot Jade a look of annoyance when he began to chew on an ice cube. He, of course, didn't notice.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Dengan semua TV, konsol permainan, komputer, dan ponsel di masa kini, layar dan jejaring menyerbu kehidupan kita sejak usia dini–dan membuat kita menjadi lebih buruk daripada lebih baik. [P. 199]

Soy un escritor, no su jodida secretaria! Mi casa no es una oficina, es el refugio de un hombre que intenta concentrarse cuarenta minutos seguidos.

why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with all day. And maybe she always read like that--with an air of having surrendered totally to a spell.

Sometimes our mind picks some very bad times to take a walk, doesn't it?

Sometimes it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better.

The transient vacuities of our cultural icons—success, peace, happiness, and distraction—pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.

We have an entire culture of addictive treatment plans, of sensate distraction, and of jejune impatience that is driven by the preference of security through unconsciousness as an antidote to growth.

What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against the work of school. At night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read.

I answered few questions in class. I watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped I was not beginning to idle. I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

I think it's leading us on a wild gundark chase.

Most people come together through sexual attraction and then try to figure out if they're compatible. The sex distracts them, then they realize too late that their pieces don't fit together

The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?

SITTING IN THE QUIET of his apartment's shaded living room, the Teacher chucked his Treo across to the couch

And the driver?" Claire asked. "Drunk, and texting while driving. He just walked away.

Cindy needed both hands on the wheel. She clicked off without leaving a message and tossed her phone back onto the passenger seat. Up ahead, Lake Street terminated at a T intersection. Cindy saw the Subaru take the left onto Arguello Boulevard toward the Presidio, and she followed the Outback into the turn too fast. Centrifugal force sent her handbag and cell phone off the passenger seat and onto the floor.

That damned smart-phone is the stupidest gadget I've ever owned.

Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!

I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means, unfortunately, I don't get much work done!

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.