Quotes About Distraction

It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so much was wrong at home.1

Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported withdrawing from emotional involvement with their patients and that their patients had noticed they weren't fully present.

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm? Why don't you stay sober today? We didn't come to New York to stay sober.

You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.

Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?

You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils." ? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

it's really in the business of keeping our eyes on the TV or our fingers clicking.

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time.

There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: "meetings." —DAVE BARRY

Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an "open loop," which will be pulling on your attention if it's not appropriately managed. In

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON

First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear.

it is championing appropriate engagement with your world—guiding you to make the best choice of what to do in each moment, and to eliminate distraction and stress about what you're not doing.

There is too much distraction at the day-to-day, hour-to-hour level of commitments to allow for appropriate focus on the higher levels.

Bailing water in a leaky boat diverts energy from rowing the boat.

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.

The game of work and the business of life are really the same thing, when it comes down to the principles and behaviors and techniques that eliminate distraction and foster beneficial focus.