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Quotes About Distraction

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.
~ Andy Stanley
If you cant forget some things in life, make sure you dont give yourself time to remember them.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I make up my mind, other times my mind wanders, and every so often I lose track of it entirely.
~ Unknown
Things I do well: Miss you, think, sleep, post irrelevant things on the internet, procrastinate, and appreciate music.
~ Unknown
Life is much like FACEBOOK. People will 'Like' your problems and 'Comment.' But no one is gonna solve them. Because everybody seems so busy in 'Updating' their own.
~ Unknown
When everything on the internet is dead, and you're forced to do something productive.
~ Unknown
What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.
~ Unknown
Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.
~ Unknown
Never text while driving. I'm pretty sure what you have to tell someone is not more important than your life.
~ Unknown
Forgive me for not being there, my mind has found a place called else where.
~ Unknown
If you could just get off of my mind for 10 seconds...Maybe I could fall asleep.
~ Unknown
Et chaque fois la lâcheté qui nous détourne de toute tâche difficile, de toute oeuvre importante, m'a conseillé de laisser cela, de boire mon thé en pensant simplement à mes ennuis d'aujourd'hui, à mes désirs de demain qui se laissent remâcher sans peine.
~ Marcel Proust
Ce que je reproche aux journaux, c'est de nous faire faire attention tous les jours à des choses insignifiantes tandis que nous lisons trois ou quatre fois dans notre vie les livres où il y a des choses essentielles.
~ Marcel Proust
La filosofia parla spesso di atti liberi e di atti necessari. Forse non ve n'è nessuno più completamente subìto da noi di quello che, in virtù di una forza ascensionale compressa durante l'azione, fa, quando il nostro pensiero è in riposo, risalire così un ricordo livellato agli altri dalla forza oppressiva della distrazione, e slanciarsi, perché a nostra insaputa esso conteneva più degli altri un fascino di cui ci accorgiamo soltanto ventiquattro ore dopo.
~ Marcel Proust
Fuhrman was a big deal only because the defense required a bogeyman to distract the jury from the devastating evidence against their client. Almost
~ Marcia Clark
Le voglio bene. È una di quelle persone un po' distratte che si fanno voler bene per forza.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
~ Margery Allingham
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
~ Marguerite Duras
Du siehst einfach nur nicht richtig, wohin du gehst. Du lässt dich ablenken, und dann stolperst du ueber jedes noch so kleine Hindernis. Du bist weltfremd... So einfach ist das oder so komplexiert. Wie man es nimmt... Konzentriere dich beim Gehen darauf, was du tust.
~ Unknown
Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you're saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you're saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.
~ Marie Forleo
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
~ Donald Knuth