Quotes About Distraction

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving.

Look away, look away, look away …

One wandering thought pollutes the day;

One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens.

Do I really agree with this thought, or have I been pressured into believing it? How do I want to respond to this feeling – distract myself from it, repress it, express it or just feel it until it changes into something else?

addictive distraction that plagues modern industrial societies is a result of people being taught and forced to reject, pathologize or punish so many of their own and others' normal feeling states.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

No quería pensar en esto y procuraba no pensar. Probablemente ese era el motivo de que me sintiera tan aturdido. Cada vez que notaba la formación de un pensamiento, me decía: "No pienses eso, no pienses eso, no pienses eso". Aquello era como liquidar a un montón de moscas con un matamoscas

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

But while your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you have pronounced it on yourself.”

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”

Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.