Quotes About Distraction

The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT!

I knew that the best way to get out of chores, or sports, or talking to elderly relatives on the phone was by holding up a book and saying, "But I'm just enjoying Little House on the Prairie so much!

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People often chase the danger they're least afraid of to distract them from the part of life that scares them most.

I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.

Hunger is distracting and unpleasant, almost as much as being bloated or stuffed. You should no more skip meals than you would skip filling your gas tank—you'll only be stranded later.

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Music is only beautiful when the artist is inspired to educate the nation, rather than distracting it from reality.

Some people can't focus on the present moment for a great reason that they can't explain to anyone else.

The secondary purpose of sport is to distract people from reality, it is the new drug of our generation.

The state of boredom must be avoided, because it kills more than war.

Those who seek materialistic things cannot go beyond themselves or master their thoughts. Monkey mind, jumping from tree to tree.

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

Todos sabemos lo que debemos hacer (detalle más o detalle menos), pero todos nos las ingeniamos, al menos parte del tiempo, para no hacerlo.

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it saw.

Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know will set your mind down some distant trail, as the one you're really on is too painful to view. at the burial of Ernest, Sarah's brother p177

I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.

Frequently, I will read one or two selections from a devotional book as a means of tuning my heart before I open the Scripture. These books, written by human authors, should never take the place of the Word of God itself, but they can help us focus on spiritual matters and clear out any clutter that may be distracting to us.

It might seem as if he's been sitting around eating M& M's and scratching his ass for the past few months.

The modern danger is that we grow so engrossed with and seduced by what matters so little, busy with and ruled by whatever presses upon us, that we overlook and thereby destroy our most important projects and goals through neglect.