Quotes About Distraction

Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l'imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.]

Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking into a pond. Though we aim to see what's deep in the bottom, we are often distracted by our own reflection.

The difference between reading a good book and Facebook, is that a good book is always hard to put down, whereas on Facebook it's become too easy to put anyone down.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

Reading musses up my mind.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Every second you think meaningless, makes your minutes less productive and take you hours behind

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

Lose yourself in the music, not the fog

Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

This is one of Travis's greatest gifts: the ability to make all unpleasantness and worry disappear simply by not paying attention. He's like a goldfish with a head injury.

Sports are what we watch when we just can't look at another spreadsheet. They're what we use when we need to get away from our lives for a little bit. Every human needs the escape, and sports provides this splendidly.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some of my books should be awarded their own frequent-flier miles, they've traveled so much. I take these volumes on flight after flight with the best of intentions and then end up reading anything and everything else. (Sky Mall! Golf Digest!)

Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...