Quotes About Distraction

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

For me, nothing bad can happen on a football pitch. You could be growing up in chaos, everything could be going crazy around you, but if you have a ball at your feet, you stop thinking. Everything is quiet, peaceful.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

You don't even realise how much you need Internet, but it really stops you from doing a lot.

Music stops you from thinking.

People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me.

I have the strange ability to shut things out.

Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things, and harder to be distracted by the wrong things.

He saw "new propaganda" emerging, and he said its goal was "not to convince or persuade, but to keep the viewer hooked and distracted, passive and paranoid." RT, which received more than $1 billion a year from the Kremlin, began to fine-tune its English-language shows, targeting the fringes of the American political spectrum on the right and the left.