Quotes About Distraction

He couldn't concentrate on anything while her incredible bottom led him up those stairs like the Pied Piper of tempting asses.

Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.

AMANDA [overriding him]: Now, Victor, I refuse to discuss anything in the least important until after breakfast. I couldn't concentrate now, I know I couldn't.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

We often praise "the ability to multitask." While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to abiding change in your brain maps.

first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Ma seule distraction est d'aller, le dimanche, au sortir de la messe, chez Mme Gouin, l'épicière… Le dégoût m'en éloigne, mais l'ennui, plus fort, m'y ramène. Là, du moins, on se retrouve, toutes ensemble… On potine, on rigole, on fait du bruit, en sirotant des petits verres de mêlé-cassis… Il y a là, un peu, l'illusion de la vie… Et le temps passe…

Ma seule distraction est d'aller, le dimanche, au sortir de la messe, chez Mme Gouin, l'épicière… Le dégoût m'en éloigne, mais l'ennui, plus fort, m'y ramène.

If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.

For Lilith, it was a comfortable, mindless activity that gave her something to do when there was nothing she could do about her situation.

If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.

Politicians and big corporations get the bread, and we get the circuses.

Mil cosas solicitan a la vez nuestra atención y ninguna de ellas logra retenernos; así la vida se nos vuelve arena entre los dedos y las horas humo en el cerebro.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

That's what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it.