Quotes About Distraction

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.

Now I will have less distraction.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

In the face of Covid-19, everything else seems a side-issue.

I think I needed boxing as an excuse, to be busy, 'cause if I wasn't busy I was getting into trouble.

You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.

Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

I've been blessed for 17 years to have a job where I make people forget their problems for a little while.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

We honestly cannot hear sometimes because the audiences are so loud.

When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present.

I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how it was that I went to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or what I was doing. Like, I looked at 'Bon Appetit' magazine for three hours for things I'm never going to cook. Or I'm just on Pinterest for no logical reason.

She held one of her father's huge juicy pasties in one hand and munched it as she read. Crumbs kept falling on her book and she brushed them off with the pasty when they fell on the page she was reading.

It never ceases to amaze me," [Chrestomanci] said, "the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down... I ghosted between islands of anxiety... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn't shed.

It was the kind of day in which you forget words and drop things and wonder what it is you came into the room to get because you are standing here for a reason and you have to tell yourself it is just a question of sooner or later before you remember because you always remember once you are here. The thing is communicated somehow.

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

There were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, unspokenly. Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here. They were an assault on the environment, which was defined by length, width, and depth, with time drawn out, computed in heartbeats.