Quotes About Distraction

We built a world so noisy that we've begun to miss true magnificence.

There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.

Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

There is the constant temptation to relate to the iPhone rather than our world. It is a convenient filter for screening calls, keeping colleagues at a manageable distance. It provides a safe place to hide when we're anxious in a crowd. We avoid awkward moments by fading into our phone. It prompts us to look down rather than up, to ask Siri for answers rather than our friends, our parents, or our God.

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

We aren't designed by God to seek the image of others; we are designed to seek him. When we spend time on social media focusing on how well others present their lives, we are, to use one of my father's baseball analogies, taking our eye off the ball.

The second admission my young adult friends made is that they know their obsession is distracting them from God. Again, let me ask you to be honest. Do you think more about what God says in his Word or what people say on your feed? How much time do you think about God versus what to say online? Work hard to tell the truth. No matter how tempting it is to ignore him, if God is trying to get your attention, don't shake him off.

Cuando no estoy concentrado en lo que le importa a Dios, mi corazón se desvía hacia las cosas de este mundo —más y más grande, mejores y más veloces—la

This is how it will defeat you, by distracting you - it is like life, you can live it or be continually distracted until you are surprised to discover that like smoke from a dead fire, it is gone.

That's the trouble with witnesses. They always look at the wrong things.

My curiosity is interfering with my work!" Einstein lamented in 1915 while trying to finalize his Theory of General Relativity.

I you want people to judge you based on the inside, don't distract them from the outside.

When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one'll notice.

instead he was being led away from his proper Emma by a woman who was conducting a revolution in his kitchen.

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Nothing of the smallest interest was going to happen today, at all events, and he could not for the life of him say why he had come there himself, except that, having finished the lecture on torts, he was at a loose end that morning, and that sitting with his neighbours in the village hall made a change from pottering round the garden at home.

and what is more annoying than to be chatted to when you are absorbed in a book?

I rode my bike home and did the one thing that always helped when things weren't going well. I read. Books were my refuge. Getting lost in a solid adventure story was the best way I knew of to turn off reality.

I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences.

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.