Quotes About Distraction

what-aboutery," the practice of diverting attention from the difficulty under discussion by raising a different problematic issue. ("Never mind X, what about Y?")

These were often the same people who later admitted that they also glanced at pinging phones during sex or while sitting on the toilet. Upon learning this, I placed a bottle of Purell in my office.)

I'd been mistaking feeling less for feeling better. The feelings are still there, though. They come out in unconscious behaviors, in an inability to sit still, in a mind that hungers for the next distraction, in a lack of appetite or a struggle to control one's appetite, in a short-temperedness,

He glances toward his cell, which is vibrating again, but I don't follow his gaze. I stay with him, trying to hold on so he won't get pulled away whenever an unwanted feeling appears and go numb. People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

Across the country—at coffee with friends, in meetings at work, during lunch at school, in front of the cashier at Target, and at the family dinner table—people were texting and Tweeting and shopping, sometimes pretending to make eye contact and sometimes not even bothering.

By focusing on one external calamity after another, Charlotte has been distracting herself from the real crises in her life—the internal ones. Sometimes "drama," no matter how unpleasant, can be a form of self-medication, a way to calm ourselves down by avoiding the crises brewing inside.

Our actions often show our resistance. For instance: Changing the subject Leaving the room Going to the bathroom Being late Getting sick Procrastinating by: doing something else doing busy work wasting time Looking away, or out the window Flipping through a magazine Refusing to pay attention Eating, drinking, or smoking Creating or ending a relationship Creating breakdowns; cars, appliances, plumbing, etc.

Antes de los portátiles y de las BlackBerry y del resto de las herramientas que confundían la información con el conocimiento.

I am so depressed and bored I may even have to do some homework.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

For better or worse, we're rewiring our brains for what the technology industry now calls "continuous partial attention.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

It's like a fidget spinner." Then the offering dropped to the ground, tossed aside. The wind had moved on. "Those get boring fast," said Darnell.

It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio.

When you sit down with a book, you are separating yourself out of your world for a few hours and getting lost in the story.

I need to get back to the office. Those windows won't stare out themselves all afternoon.

I need to get back to the office. Those windows won't stare out themselves all afternoon.

First is his ability to turn you from the way you should go and get you sidetracked. The second is the way he works to portray the cross as odious to you, and lastly, that he points you in the direction which leads to death.

las cosas terrenales, cuando se han apoderado de las mentes de los hombres, apartan bastante lejos sus corazones de Dios".

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.

There's an Arabian proverb that says if you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.

El lamento nos deja sin energía. No podemos construir sobre el lamento. El temor al futuro nos distrae y nos llena de aprensión.