Quotes About Distraction

If your child is oversensitive, or undersensitive, to stimulation, things like 'scratchy' clothes and too much light or noise can make her uncomfortable, anxious, distracted, or overwhelmed. That can lead to meltdowns for no reason that's apparent to you or other caregivers."1 A

Oooh," Peril said, momentarily distracted by the idea of an enchanted piece of cheese.

Tsunami lashed her tail so hard she nearly fell off the branch. "General, may I take a nap? General, I need a papaya! General, my claws are tired! General, look, a butterfly! SOMEBODY IS GETTING STABBED IN THE FACE IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP.

It was sort of difficult to rage-fly on the power of hating HiveWings when there were two HiveWings flying right alongside her, being extremely noisy and distracting

It was almost a relief to be distracted by a NightWing assassin landing on top of the rock pile beside them.

A wall of indestructible ice between him and Foeslayer. "That's not —" Arctic started, then bit back the rest of his sentence as his mother hissed at him. "In fact," she spat, "since you are so overwhelmed by this animus gift decision, it seems best for you to stay in seclusion until it is time for the ceremony. Clearly something here has been distracting you, but we won't let that be a problem anymore.

He grinned at her again. He really needed to quit doing that. It was very distracting.

There is relatively little emphasis on legal issues and quantitative evaluations, which often distract employees from the critical messages their managers are trying to communicate. What is more, these systems are customized to provoke meaningful discussion between managers and employees about relevant issues that they are dealing with on a daily basis.

I believe in training alone—it develops better focus, reduces distraction and is good for the soul.

People commonly use the word 'procrastination' to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

The smartphone is a gateway to endless work. Workers should have the right to close the gate. (Goodbye Phone)

There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes.

Frida is a detour and a distraction. It was her genius as an artist, and her neurotic narcissism, to turn her whole self into art—her love, her suffering, her accident-prone life—and in the process make herself an icon, for the Mexican tradition is full of icons, especially of madonnas.

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

All these hours and chatting and things like that don't make the science better.

There is a deep-seated tendency, it's almost a compulsion, to distract ourselves, even when we're not consciously feeling uncomfortable. Everybody feels a little bit of an itch all the time. There's a background hum of edginess, boredom, restlessness. As I've said, during my time in retreat where there were almost no distractions, even there I experienced this deep uneasiness. The

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That's not considered to be a problem; the point is to see it.

When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.