Quotes About Distraction

I would sooner converse with a snake! He side-stepped the clutter. Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.

Were you listening to a word I said?' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

Humans have a very clear idea about how to behave, and on many occasions actually do. But it's sometimes disheartening that correct action is drowned out by endless chitter-chatter, designed not to find a way forward but to justify petty jealousies and illogically held prejudices.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ultimately, without a major resolution." "Perhaps," I said thoughtfully, "that's exactly what we like about it.

Many people mistakenly try to decide if they want the job during the interview. Big mistake! This will distract you during the interview, and your lack of focus will be apparent to the interviewer. Focus on getting the offer.

Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves

But I do not use the Internet, because I know myself too well. Once I got on the Internet I would get so distracted, I'd be basically giving one of my books to the Internet because I wouldn't be writing. I'd be playing on that machine. Interview by Associated Press Nov 03, 2010

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.

Congratulations on your Engagement'. But I am not engaged I am deeply distracted.

Cuando cada cual tiene su quehacer, nadie habla sino cuando tiene algo que decir; pero cuando no se hace nada, es forzoso estar hablando siempre; y he ahí la más incómoda y peligrosa de todas las sujeciones.

She flicked off the TV.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.