Quotes About Distraction

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Love is a sentiment precipitated by an illusionary excitement which seldom fades away leaving the victims in utter hope and distraction to love and be loved in return

Patience is the art of finding something else to do.

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.

If you want success and wealth, then stop spending too much time on cyber world.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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