Quotes About Distraction

You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

It's quite nice to switch off and not see anything to do with cricket.

Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

I'm a big gamer, so I love my PlayStation to switch off from triathlon.

The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of the 21st century.

When you hit that safe 40-point mark it's very easy for a player to think about his holidays and actually switch off.

Over the years I have been in a lot of trouble but I've always managed to switch off and play.

When you walk into the cinema you have to switch your phones off, you get involved with the big screen, you cry with the film, you laugh with the film. It actually drives the message home far stronger than when you quickly see it on your phone.

A great deal of our work involves switching music off.

I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as well, but they were definitely the best for just switching my brain off, not having to deal with reality.

I find that a small sacrifice such as switching off my phone and blocking out work helps me stay balanced.

For me I tried to not keep a low profile but I was training in a different country as I prepared for Sydney because I had such a realistic gold medal shot. I just wanted to stay focused and not get caught up in all of the hullabaloo and all of press prior to it.

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

Because the writer has done her job, the world of the book I am reading has become, for the moment at least, more real than the world at my elbow. Books this good should carry a warning: Your quiche might burn, your child might escape his playpen, the morning glory vine might strangle your roses, and you'll never know.

Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore. She doesn't mean that it's a real veil. And it isn't about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. Mom doesn't think in those ways. It's just her way of saying that most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

Miriam says that sometimes, when we don't want to 'look hard at our behavior,' we look hard at everything else instead...

Oh, the floozy. Now she's worried about her gaping neckline? Weston ignored Molly and drew Rosa's attention back to their

Buses and trains both set you thinking, but not in the same way. Trains give you a rhythm, sent you into dreams, cut you off from reality. Buses were always stopping and starting; traffic, road-junctions, lights; and of course, bus-stops. The world you passed through was observable. And real. So was the world inside your head. Buses were good places to worry on.

When people's brains stop working, just go somewhere else." (Death of a Doxie)

Confound it." He sighed clear down. "I was going to finish that book this evening. Now this infernal mishmash.

I never try to do any deep thinking while I'm driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be;

My dinner's in an hour, and I don't want to waste time flopping around in a mire of inanities.

Of course the trouble was that the only way to get something out of your mind is to get something else in it.