Quotes About Distraction

According to research from Laval University in Quebec, time passes most quickly when we're absorbed in an activity; time passes most slowly when we're thinking specifically about how long something is taking—perhaps most often when we're waiting. That's why "the watched pot never boils," even though the watched pot actually takes 9 1/2 minutes to boil,

Beanie You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hangout with nineteen year old girls everyday

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Our theory," explained Fried, "is that we'll see better results when people have a long stretch of uninterrupted time.

Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

Today, we know that in the era of the Internet, focused attention has become the rarest commodity in the world. Everyone is speaking, no one is listening, and the resulting familiarity breeds inattention. It is therefore difficult to break through the many levels of resistance and make fresh sense to people.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.

Daydreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

Beware of "the cares of this world . . ." (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by "the cares of this world.

Christian work can actually be a means of diverting a person's focus away from Jesus Christ.

The financial security of older training analysts in power and the distraction from the ordinary uncertainties of aging may play an important role here.

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Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Love yields to business. If you seek a way out of love, be busy; you'll be safe then.