Quotes About Distraction

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in.

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in. Which sounds silly, I know, but the same principle applies to everything else.

My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it.

Beware of worldliness—it can turn your heart away from God.

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

Yet aside from the Angie distraction, it was starting to feel like the summers before it, with long, anonymous, and forgettable, but nearly perfect days away from stuffy classrooms, sloppy joes...

From 2,272 text messages a month in 2008, American teenagers (ages 13–17) ballooned to 3,339 messages a month in 2010, an average of six per waking hour. Simply put, students in one of the most formative periods of their intellectual and emotional lives are interrupted 118 times a day for messages, totaling 90 minutes.

The world's a T.V. and hang-ups are commercials.

It's more common for the students I've worked with to read too much than to read too little. They use reading as a distraction, or as a way to avoid having to think their own thoughts, or as a magic charm: "If I read everything in the field, then I'll be able to write and be sure I haven't missed anything.

Had she not interrupted, EveLynn would have detailed every blasted piece of fabric in her possession. Unfortunately, she gets stuck on a track that derails her and won't allow her to roll to a halt.

If Satan can't make me fall away from God's grace, he will do everything he can to keep me from fully embracing God's grace. Satan wants me—and he wants you!—to be so constantly preoccupied with what we're not that we never get around to realizing all that God is.

You keep distracting me," I tell her. "All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!" "Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

Real life sucks. I'm going to go read a book...

Being bored is not a legitimate excuse to post 1000+ webcam photos of yourself.

Making unnecessary noises when you're bored...we all do it.

'Mom...I'm bored.' 'Okay, if you're so bored why don't you clean this...' 'Nevermind I found something to do.'

I used to always sneak food into class to eat when I got bored...Well, not even when I was bored. I just love food!