Quotes About Distraction

send the text without thinking. I'm distracted, stabbing away at the keys on my phone while sounding off to Yasmin as she drives down the rain-drenched streets. My fingers won't work fast enough. They feel unusually clumsy and

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down. <...> If you want to get on in life there's things in life you have to ignore so that you can keep on.

I let it boil and it's got scum on it," Carol said annoyedly. "I'm sorry." But Therese loved it, because she knew this was exactly what Carol would always do, be thinking of something else and let the milk boil.

When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.

She exists as in dreams. She has no sense of reality. She gets nervous because people are always interrupting her daydreams.

Living is extremely tolerable, living keeps us busy and distracts us, living makes us laugh.

Muchas veces nuestra libertad es tan intensa que miramos para otro lado.

Tento isolar-me para encontrar a vida em si mesma. No entanto apoiei-me demais no jogo que distrai e consolo e quando dele me afasto, encontro-me bruscamente sem amparo.

Tento isolar-me para encontrar a vida em si mesma. No entanto apoiei-me demais no jogo que distrai e consola e quando dele me afasto, encontro-me bruscamente sem amparo

Siento que no puedo parar y me asusto. Procuro distraerme del miedo. Pero ya hace mucho que pararon los golpes reales, estoy sintiendo el incesante redoblar en mí.

We all carry the question in the deepest part of our being. We turn on the lights, power up our brains, and fill every crack and crevice with illumination and distraction. But in what shadows remain, there is still that question, waiting for us. Death is waiting for us. Paradoxically, the less space we allot to it, the larger it grows. Perhaps that is why so many of us fear the dark.

A peculiar feature – no doubt a weakness – of my mental make-up is that I find it difficult to concentrate twice on the same subject. Normally

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

I've just about stopped using the computer in class, because the kids are so distracted by the computers themselves," Ms. Valentine concludes. "I think it's the corporate world manipulating the public school system. It's a big show.

Oh! To rationalize oneself into matrimony...Oh! To decide something so grave in life 'after mature consideration'! Choose the color of a dress after a thousand hesitations, but for God's sake, get married without reflecting on it! That's the grace I wish I wish for you. May you even be so distracted that day that you walk past the registry office without remembering to stop there.

One thing is sure. Entertainment is important. Without it, the entire human race would go mad within a matter of hours.

All the great sages of history have made the same mistake. They think people want work, tasks, direction. What people really want is entertainment

He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.

Men verdooft zich met prietpraat en gebruikt ogen en oren niet.

If you wish to acquire recollection by practicing this holy exercise, remember to make use of a very brief means of ridding yourself of various distracting thoughts. This is that you say "No" to them when they come to you during prayer.

Successful people in particular are susceptible to surges of anything-is-possible. They then plunge into new, seemingly attractive markets hoping to prove themselves to the world yet again. However, it is extremely rare that the same person achieves world championship or wins the Nobel Prize in two disciplines. Danger looms just around the corner if the new activity is too distracting and the core business is neglected.

Occasionally a yellow leaf fell from the tree. Then one or the other of us would turn up his eyes as though to see the leaf fall once again. We didn't wait for the next leaf, which fell a little later. Out eyes lacked the patience. We didn't commit ourselves to leaves. Only to flying splashes of yellow that distracted our faces from one another's

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

What use to the king is a servant who is distracted, merely for want of a piece of bread?