Quotes About Distraction

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.

I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.

When I hear about being one of the greatest third basemen of all time, that stuff is literally in one ear and out the other.

I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.

Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

Movies are about escape.

Basketball is such an escape from a lot of things.

You want to watch TV and escape for a second, and that's what 'The Bachelorette' has always been.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

I think escapism is really important.

Writing is my escapism.

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

I'm against escapist entertainment.

To ask somebody to sit down and watch 30 minutes' worth of an Internet video - on the Internet, that's an eternity.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else's story is about the only distraction that works.

It is always the case: if your tooth hurts, your tongue keeps going there. You are always conscious of a wound.