Quotes About Distraction

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

Back to work. If I'm [writing] I'm not thinking about the crazy.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.