Quotes About Distraction

tends to put us before the television and its one-way window

Television's greatest minute-by-minute appeal is that it engages without demanding. One can rest while undergoing stimulation. Receive without giving.

The dreads and dangers of abstract thinking are a big reason why we now all like to stay so busy and bombarded with stimuli all the time. Abstract thinking tends most often to strike during moments of quiet repose.

A dog, if you point at something, will look only at your finger.

Entertainment's chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can't tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.

Sviare l'attenzione, il segreto è tutto lì, tesoro. Non hai bisogno di chissà quali marchingegni, botole, casse con il doppio fondo, tavoli strani. Ho sempre sostenuto che un uomo disposto a imparare come si svia l'attenzione della gente può sfilare un oggetto dalla tasca, metterlo in un cappello e infine estrarlo. Resteranno tutti a bocca aperta, chiedendosi da dove è spuntata quella roba.

But, soft! methinks I do digress too much

Distraction and diversion. It was more than Luke had dared hope for. He planned to make a move no matter what—he had to—come what may at whatever cost to himself. Then Cal and Jed had blundered along, scared witless and thinking only of getting off the street before the shooting started. Their timely interruption broke the concentration of Cort and Devon Randle.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Quando il piccolo uomo se ne fu andato, Ross si riempì nuovamente la pipa, l'accese e tornò al suo libro. Tabitha Bethia gli saltò in grembo e lui non la spinse via, e cominciò invece a massaggiarle un orecchio mentre leggeva.

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

By?em kiedy? obecny przy dyskusji Kotta - czy nie z Breiterem? - na temat co chcia? powiedzie? X w swoim ostatnim utworze. Ciskali w siebie cytatami. Zaproponowa?em, ?eby go zapytali przez telefon i nawet da?em im numer. Zamilkli, a po chwili zacz?li rozmawia? o czym innym - gdy problem zosta? zredukowany do telefonicznego pytania, przesta? ich interesowa?.

You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.

Lo más importante en la vida es estar distraído. Hay que buscarse problemas lo suficientemente difíciles de resolver para evitar estar preocupados por los verdaderos problemas. Los problemas relacionados con el amor son bastante entretenidos. ¿Me querrá esa mujer? El amor es una forma de evitar pensar en la vida

I was taught by Danny Simon to rely on my own judgment, and I don't like to waste precious time on what can easily become a distraction.

I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God.

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.

He was so busy that he did not even have time to think of his pipe, or the morning paper. At last, just before lunch, he found a breathing space. He sat down in the study to rest his legs, and looked for the Times. It was not in its usual place on his reading table. At that moment the puppies woke up, and he ran out to attend them. He would have been distressed if he had known that Fuji had the paper in the kitchen, and was studying the HELP WANTED columns.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

Self-regulation is highly valued. Even if we find them a bit tedious, we admire people who stick to an exercise regimen. We certainly value people who do not express every negative emotion they experience, those who are "low maintenance" because they can control their reactions to disappointment and insecurity. We can count on the self-controlled person to keep her promises because she will not be distracted in the course of so doing.

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.

Like everyone else at the Anchorage, except maybe for Natalie, Jonah had developed the blinders that allowed him to dance on. That prevented him from seeing the gradual decline of everyone around him; that allowed him to pretend that they weren't all heading for the same tragic end. The band played on as the ship sank beneath them. Distracted by the magic of music, they would keep dancing until the waves closed over their heads.

How loud did the music have to be to drown out her thoughts?

Sometimes it seemed to Raisa that life at court was designed to keep a person from thinking too much about anything in particular.