Quotes About Distraction

La mente del lector suele divagar entre el 20 y 40% del tiempo que dedica a la lectura.

El bombardeo continuo de correos electrónicos, escritos y facturas –la "catástrofe completa" de la vida– nos arroja a un estado cerebral antitético

Quando a nossa mente vagueia, o nosso cérebro ativa um conjunto de circuitos cerebrais que tagarelam sobre coisas que não têm nada que ver com aquilo que estamos a tentar aprender. Na ausência de foco, nenhuma nova recordação daquilo que aprendemos é armazenada.

A mente absorta, sob a forma de mente divagante, poderá ser a maior fonte de desperdício da atenção no local de trabalho. O foco da nossa experiência no aqui e agora – como a tarefa em mãos, a conversa que estamos a ter, ou chegar a consenso numa reunião – exige que desliguemos a lógica do «tudo a meu respeito» de coisas mentais irrelevantes para aquilo que se passa no presente.

A reader's mind typically wanders anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text.

A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.

ilustran el modo en que, adueñándose de nuestra atención, la tecnología entorpece nuestras relaciones.

A sobrecarga cognitiva crónica que caracteriza tantas das nossas vidas parece diminuir o nosso nível de domínio de nós mesmos. Quanto maiores as exigências sobre a nossa atenção, ao que parece, mais fracos somos a resistir às tentações.

O pensamento profundo exige a sustentação de uma mente focada. Quanto mais distraídos estivermos, mais superficiais serão as nossas reflexões; de igual modo, quanto mais curtas forem, maior probabilidade terão de ser triviais.

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

Wilson showed that the cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot smoking.

It's almost bed time, so I'll just check my e-mail, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and watch a season of my favorite show on Netflix real quick.

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Also it lights up your big dumb face.

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

"The cat is there when you call her – if she doesn't have something better to do."

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."

Are you trivializing the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention

I can't... I find that I can't concentrate. On anything. I can't really..." Rhage's eyes drifted to Zsadist. "How do you live with it? All the anger. The pain. The...

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading