Quotes About Distraction

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks.

Voters tend to reject overreach and distraction - women in particular.

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off setbacks.

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

When you're shopping you forget about eating!

I'm so focused on the game that I hardly understand what the people sing or shout or what they do.

When I walk down the street people shout from their cars and their vans.

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

I watch too many crime shows - it's ridiculous.

Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful.

TV is the best babysitter.

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

I've started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.

My parents divorced when I was seven and baking was something that helped me to take my mind off things.