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Quotes About Distraction

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.
~ Grace Slick
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!
~ Neil Gaiman
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
~ Stephen King
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
~ Alice Hoffman
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
~ George W. Bush
For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.
~ Geri Halliwell
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
~ Alexander Pope
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.
~ Frederick Lenz
Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance.
~ Nikki Rowe
I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.
~ James Karrigan
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.
~ Goodman Ace
What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
~ Huston Smith
I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.
~ Steve McQueen
If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.
~ Gary Hopkins
One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction
~ Topsy Gift
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
~ Phil McGraw
Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.
~ Rory Vaden
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
~ Bob Lemon
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
~ Dave Eggers
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
~ Norah Jones
Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.
~ Phyllis Diller