Quotes About Distraction

Jessica..." The sound of his voice saying my name soothed me, and it's all I wanted to hear him say. Just my name, over and over and over again in his buttery baritone. I wanted my name to be his mantra, the word he meditated on, his tool for finding calm in the world. But he kept on talking.

Amaya is boiling bunnies over Colin Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Who? What?!" "And Ruthie is an alkie in denial. And Justin Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Jessie! What are you talking about? Who are these people? Are they friends of yours?" "Uh, not really," I said. "They're from The Real World." My mom sighed and said, "Jessie, I asked you how your day was." That's when I realized I had gotten too attached to the TV.

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think.

Some people clean the fridge to avoid studying. I go to Brisbane.

She wore a simple purple long-sleeved turtleneck, but streaks of white across her chest - flour perhaps? - distracted him, made him want to volunteer for cleanup duty.

Moi je vole, je plane, tandis qu'il y a pleins de gens qui sont morts de l'interieur. […] L'argent qu'ils gagnent, ils le dépensent dans une télévision neuve, alors que l'ancienne marche encore, dans une nouvelle voiture, parce que la précédente est trop vielle, ou dans des vacances pour se distraire et oublier cet affreux boulot qu'ils sont obligés de faire parce qu'ils ont besoin de cet argent…

It's not true but I long to be connected like that. I want someone to be able to tell I am out of sorts by the details of my distraction, like leaving the drawers of my dresser cracked open. I want someone to know me as well as

I dont know what could possibly distract three pigs enough so that you can get away." Sabrina thought for a moment then grinned. "I know exactly what to do.

The law, you know, can be a dreary business. A little harmless diversion is certainly required, from time to time. As a corrective.

It is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.

You weren't distracted by evil things, for the enemy knows that you have been converted from them. He drew you away by legitimate pleasures.

None of us hears properly", he went on. "Every one of us is tied up in our inner noise.

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley

The internet, wrote Nicholas Carr in The Shallows, his book about brain science and screen time, steadily chips away at one's "capacity for concentration and contemplation.

Today, thanks to platform technologies, profit is wrought as much by the dismantling of mental resources as it is by the dismantling of natural resources. We have learned to harvest the solitude of others. Profiteers produce social grooming technologies, and agents of distraction swarm around us. Solitude is consumed and depleted as surely as Brazilian rainforests are toppled and the tar sands of Alberta are sucked dry.

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.

My attention span is about this big.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.