Quotes About Distraction

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

Glittering generalities are designed to blind you from the dull Devil in the details

After all, I might not intend to use him for a plaything, but I could still appreciate looking through the toy-shop window.

True love, even if just in your head, can make you forget how badly things actually suck.

How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?

Semantics are just some antics used by the enemy to get us distracted and off course from the destiny and inheritance that God hand-picked and created specifically for us...

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

Is he paying attention? A distracted audience is much harder to persuade. When you argue with your cat, you must entertain him.

There was a 194-car crash in Los Angeles. Luckily the guy in the first car was still able to complete his cell phone call.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

We have the most complete and instant access to information in all of history, and we're using it to watch funny cat videos.

Pris dans le tourbillon narcissique de leurs succès respectifs, ils n'avaient plus guère d'énergie pour se tourner l'un vers l'autre.

KING VIDOR: When sound first came in, that's when popcorn and all the drinks started and necking in the theater started, because you could turn away and do all sort of things and you could still hear. You wouldn't miss anything, you know. The sound would take care of it. In silent pictures, you had to pay attention the whole time. You had to sit there and try to figure it out.

It's like I can hum a few bars but I have forgotten most of the words. I can't stand in line at the grocery and carry on a normal conversation if it gets much past the weather.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

Computers thwart, contort, and befuddle us. We mess around with fonts, change screen backgrounds, slow down or increase mouse speed. We tweak and we piddle. We spend countless hours preparing PowerPoint slides that most people forget in seconds. We generate reports in duplicate and triplicate and then somw that end up serving only one function for most of the recipients - to collect dust.

It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.