Quotes About Distraction

Many of us never ever discover our greatness because we become sidetracked by a secondary activity.

And don't start thinking about that boy's shirt again, or one day you may find yourself laundering it.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

In a smoky corner of my mind I was reminded of a truth drawn from bitter experience: immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Pristojnost ?ovjeku samo oduzima vrijeme, ni?emu drugom ne koristi.

The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither.

He who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Say you're in the middle of nowhere, nobody for miles and no hope of rescue. You sit down and start playing solitaire and somebody will immediately come along and tell you to play the red eight on the black nine.

Every remedy for loneliness only postpones it.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

Don't get caught in your own thoughts, Fox. They would make her blind and deaf.

worrying him, and he seemed to look straight through her as if his thoughts were somewhere else entirely. The foreboding in Meggie's heart grew, spreading black wings. 'Send him away, Mo!' she said

Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, "I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you what it is!

the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. "As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger.

Brother, even when you're on the track you aren't running on the track, don't you know that yet?

Está usted malgastando su vida sin renovarla. Tiene que distraerse, divertirse bien y sanamente. Está usted gastando su vitalidad sin adquirir vitalidad ninguna. Esto no puede seguir así, ¿me entiende? ¡Depresión! ¡Evite la depresión!

Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject

one of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.

I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking.

Nh?ng công vi?c ? ngay trÆ°á»›c m?t ta ph?i coi là quan tr?ng nh?t, và ??ng b?n tâm tá»›i nh?ng công vi?c còn m? m? t? xa