Quotes About Distraction

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?"

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

La mia mente divaga, - mi disse, un po' come se io fossi un medico passato di lí per informarmi sui suoi strani e inquietanti nuovi sintomi. - Arrivato in fondo alla pagina cerco di riassumere ciò che ho letto, e la mia mente è vuota: sono rimasto seduto in poltrona senza far niente. Certo, ho sempre letto i libri con la penna in mano, ma ora scopro che se non lo faccio, anche quando leggo una rivista, la mia attenzione non resta concentrata su quello che ho davanti a me.

The more we focus on tangential issues, the less effective we will be in addressing matters of true moral significance.

In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.

How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.

Why the Hatfords? Who else was as much fun to tease, trick, fool, annoy, harass, and just plain drive to distraction?

Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same experience again. He makes me admit that, in spite of my great defects, I neglect myself and instead get involved in Athenian politics. So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old.

Let him alone, he has a way of stopping anywhere and losing himself without any reason. I believe that he will soon appear; do not therefore disturb him.

Yet is not the power which injustice exercises of such a nature that wherever she takes up her abode, whether in a city, in an army, in a family, or in any other body, that body is, to begin with, rendered incapable of united action by reason of sedition and distraction; and does it not become its own enemy and at variance with all that opposes it, and with the just? Is not this the case? Yes

He aquí por qué no tenemos tiempo para pensar en la filosofía; y el mayor de nuestros males consiste en que en el acto de tener tiempo y ponernos a meditar, de repente interviene el cuerpo en nuestras indagaciones, nos embaraza, nos turba y no nos deja discernir la verdad.

I understand that the current conditions in your life may not be your favorite thing to dwell on right now. You may have become very adept at concentrating on later, distracting yourself with the possibilities of the future. You may have grown accustomed to looking the other direction, daydreaming your life away, too overwhelmed at this point to even try figuring out solutions anymore for your present reality.

Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14).

I am not usually such a sluggard, he said, as we walked quickly along the street, but yesterday evening I got a novel. I ought not to read novels. When I do, I am apt to make a single mouthful of it; and that is what I did last night. I started the book at nine and finished it at two this morning; and the result is that I am as sleepy as an owl even now.

Ummm…" She licked her lips. "Define fun." "Quit doing that, jailbait. It's distracting.