Quotes About Distraction

For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.

What happens to people who live inside their phones?

She took a bite of cereal and forgot to taste it. She lost the taste somewhere between the time she put the food in her mouth and the regretful second she swallowed it.

When the phone rang she did not look at it the way they do in the movies. Real people don't look at ringing phones.

But, in fact, the ready distractibility of attention is a biological necessity, developed through millions of years of evolution as a protective mechanism against unexpected danger: this is the primary function of the visceral level.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.

Remember, the greatest enemy our business faces is the same enemy that good stories face: noise. At no point should we be able to pause a movie and be unable to answer three questions: 1.?What does the hero want? 2.?Who or what is opposing the hero getting what she wants? 3.?What will the hero's life look like if she does (or does not) get what she wants?

Remember, the greatest enemy our business faces is the same enemy that good stories face: noise.

neuroscientists claim the average human being spends more than 30 percent of their time daydreaming . . . unless they're reading, listening to, or watching a story unfold.

believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.

in his book Man's Search for Meaning, Frankl argued convincingly that man was actually most tempted to distract himself with pleasure when his life was void of meaning.

I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.

I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.

I laid down in front of the television and got lost in the story.

Why are we so restless? Because ice cream is distracting but not fulfilling. Because alcohol offers a fabricated sense of peace. Because lust is not love.

When you're in pain, you need to think of something so that at least part of you can be free of the pain, so that your mind can go somewhere where there's no pain.

That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.

distracted themselves with all kinds of gadgets and devices, flooding themselves incessantly with information and texts and communication and entertainment from every direction to try to make themselves forget it: where we were, what we were.

Every time I thought of it my stomach squirmed, so that my first instinct was to slam the lid down hard and think of something else.

A Satanás no le importa lo espiritual que sean tus intenciones, siempre y cuando les dejes para mañana.

Eve: "Keep your mind off sex" Roake: "Why? It's so happy there.