Quotes About Distraction

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

Don't go to the circus.

An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?"Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.

Why...do you find this...distracting?

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles

One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.

On a date, if you look more often to your phone than to your girlfriend/wife, then you have a problem... but if it is your partner who is messaging you, than you both need help.

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

Charlotte Huang, Going Geek

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain

When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Facebook is starting to be like my fridge, I know nothing is there but I keep checking it anyway...