Quotes About Distraction

Apart from exercising, reading and watching movies also keep me occupied.

I have a really good at-home support system with my wife and the baby and even the dogs in that they all just keep me occupied, they keep me busy, they keep me moving, to keep my mind from drifting.

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

When I'm using the Internet, I have 25 tabs open, and even if somebody sends me... something interesting, odds are I'll forget about it, or it'll get kind of lost in the shuffle.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

I remember the first time I fought somebody with a name and that was Tito Ortiz. I didn't start fighting until like the second round because I was like, 'Oh my God, that's Tito Ortiz. That's Tito Ortiz from TV. Look how big his head is, damn.'

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

The only time I think about my contract is when I'm asked about it by the media.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the thing has gripped him.

He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

Por qué me pican las pulgas y los sargentos literarios?

Do not allow yourself to be thrashed by the provoking whip of a beautiful face," he told the disciples. "How can sense slaves enjoy the world? Its subtle flavours escape them while they grovel in primal mud. All nice discriminations are lost to the man of elemental lusts.

If I catch a fish before the sun rises, I have connected myself again to the deep hum of the planet. If I turn on the television because I cannot stand an evening alone with myself or my family, I am admitting my citizenship with the living dead.

One simply cannot concern oneself eight or even five hours a day with nonsense-taken-seriously and not be corrupted by it. The corruption lies in the very habits of thought.

our hearts and minds are not engaged due to problems at home or elsewhere. The

When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.8

To break the worry habit, here is Rule 1: Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.