Quotes About Distraction

New Orleans may be too seductive for a writer.

From what people who are on Facebook say, it's a colossal waste of time, but what I don't get is why they're always on it anyway. . . .

She shooed away the kiss, a distraction. "Grouchie Gertie," she said, softly. "I'd forgotten that.

I spent the remainder of the visit staring stupidly at the TV, answering Grandma's questions in single syllables and making faces at her cooking.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Duhamel calls the movie "a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a 'star' in Los Angeles.

In your working conditions avoid everyday mediocrity. Semi-relaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading. On the other hand, accompaniment by an etude or a cacophony of voices can become as significant for work as the perceptible silence of the night. If the latter sharpens the inner ear, the former acts as a touchstone for a diction ample enough to bury even the most wayward sounds.

Clearly, this is at bottom the same ancient lament that the masses seek distraction whereas art demands concentration from the spectator.

Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.

Fans inside computers were not Zen-like; they distracted.

This was fortunate. He would have made a poor notary: he got bored and distracted too easily, especially when a project became routine rather than creative.14

Something about the structure of my brain, its associative, porous, open-endedness, was defenseless against the ever-enlarging Web. Every video, news story, photo, email, stock chart, sexy picture, and five-day weather forecast was an enticement to step into the forest, and once I was two or three bread crumbs down the path, the witches had me, I was in their oven.

The Muslim is inclined to believe that man has something more important to do than engage in a wrestling match with temptation, which he sees as a distraction from his principle business, the constant awareness of God.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.

we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

She's got zero interest in honest-to-goodness human-on-human action. No. It's magic farmyard creatures or nothing for her.

Cupcakes are for people who can't handle reality.

JAMES STILL HADN'T RETURNED Kick's texts, which meant he was deep into programming or, more likely, playing Skyrim. Kick knew he wouldn't deal well with this

I assume they're still there, ostriching themselves and eating paint chips, or whatever it is they do in their spare time. I

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

I know, these Hindi movies are crap, but they do kind of take your mind away from the crap of real life like nothing else.

Girls cannot stand being ignored, that too for a textbook.