Quotes About Distraction

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. —Kerry Gleeson

It's a waste of time and energy to keep thinking about something that you make no progress on. And it only adds to your anxiety about what you should be doing and aren't. Most

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

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them.

He looked around at the others....They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the weather. Maybe that's how the world was now....Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.

looking at her but not really seeing her, and his baby girl sure as heaven not seeing her daddy either

The only thing potentially worse than not being able to see the forest for the trees is not being able to see the trees because of the forest. —Anonymous

But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time.

It's not good to leave things of value behind. They nag at the mind and dis-tract one from the business at hand.

Le guerre sono belle, ma tendono a interferire con faccende più importanti.

He could lose himself in a story, and for a little while it might make things bearable.

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

There's more to life than sitting there interfacing, it might be a newsflash to you.

It seems significant that we don't want things to be quiet, ever, anymore.

Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her.

This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can't think anyone really believes that today's so-called 'information society' is just about information. Everyone knows it's about something else, way down.

The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?

I was one of the men in this room, the only one wearing a wristwatch who never once glanced at it. What looked just like glasses were not. I was wired from stem to stern.

What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?

Some days you can almost see Hal like flit in and out of a match, like some part of him leaves and hovers and then comes back.

Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us27 spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention.

On one level my attention was intently focused on her voice and story. On another level I - it was if my mind was having a garage sale.

It is at once too noisy and too quiet to do any real work, and I have no ideas that do not seem to me shallow and overwrought.

you can't keep the thoughts from popping in there. The thing they try to teach you is just to Let Them Go, the thoughts. Let them come as they will, but do not Entertain them.