Quotes About Distraction

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

It's hard getting away from the office when you work from home.

That's the trouble with other work-from-home types… sometimes they're actually working.

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.

Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.

nose in books, head in clouds

Drive now. Text later.

Stay alive, don't text and drive.

Intexticated: distracted by the act of texting to such a degree that one seems intoxicated.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

Zeit ist etwas, das man um so weniger begreift, je mehr man davon erfährt. Man kann ihrer nie sicher sein. Achtet man auf die Zeit, so schleicht sie dahin wie eine Schnecke, aber sobald man sich von etwas anderem ablenken läßt, springt sie davon wie ein Wiesel. Sie ist immer da, aber wenn du sie packen willst, greifst du ins Leere, denn sie ist schon wieder vergangen.

Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

They say if you stare at a telecaster long enough, all your troubles will disappear Who the H*** says that? I do

Alles waar je je wil en je aandacht op richt, wordt onzichtbaar, onbereikbaar, dat is tenminste mijn ervaring. Je ziet de dingen pas werkelijk uit je ooghoeken, als je eigenlijk ergens anders mee bezig bent. Het is net of de werkelijkheid zich dan gepasseerd voelt, het niet neemt en zich aan je opdringt.

All too often, people make the mistake of focusing too much on the content of their

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005 2006 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

So with nothing to do but algebra, Vlad settled down in front of the television with controller in hand.

The more I have, The more I realize that all that matters is the small discoveries, the little interactions, the improvised, messy, glued-together moments that lie at the centre of our happiness. Everything else is just a distraction.