Quotes About Distraction

am talking about this insane preoccupation with throwing balls of various shapes and sizes back and forth.

The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk.

When your phone chirps or vibrates, don't react. Make it wait till you pick it up. In these small ways I'm making my phone a tool again, something that serves me instead of the other way around.

Cell phones are to adults what toy rattles are to infants.

Yo tomo en mis manos mi Yo de antes y veo claramente que es tonto. Un juguete con el cual me he distraído demasiado tiempo. Esto es un poco triste, o, mejor dicho, muy triste.

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money.

Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Did having a dog make you less political?

Loving long novels plays havoc with going to school

It's hard to accuse someone of not working hard when he's got that earpiece as a constant reminder of how busy he might be. He

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

If something is going wrong in your life, and you think you cant do anything about it, don't worry, just keep yourself busy in the things you like, everything will be alright as the time passes. Time is cure.

I'm yelling 'I'm ready!' to my mom even though I'm still trying to find my stuff.