Quotes About Distraction

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

The moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little.

I am distracted by the world around me and my family's issues and my lackluster career and how all the wheels keep spinning and I have never learned how to steer.

the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.

If my client had not distracted his wife from her moments of unhappiness so that he could stay calm, she would have had the opportunity to learn to handle her own moods.

Don't let the decor distract you," Gertie said. "I'd have to go blind for this not to distract me." "Got that right," Ida Belle grumbled. "Makes my butt itch, it's so loud." Gertie

People tend to annoy me as long as they're talking, and sometimes when they're not.

I grabbed Sylvie's hand and raced downstairs, passing Tom on the couch. His blank eyes were bathed in the soft glow of his smartphone. He quickly knotted his forehead in a feigned look of earnest importance, as if he was attending to some pressing work matter. But I knew exactly what he was doing. He was playing SocialChess with some guy in the Philippines. I was just playing for a minute, he tells me later. During our fight.

That's the whole point of bread and circuses; they give employment to the vulgar.