Quotes About Distraction

Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of the web, I would stay up watching television. But there is something soporific about television: I would often nod off. Not so when I'm online. As technologies expand, these problems may only worsen.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

We usually think of improving our life by adding stuff - like more things, more success, more friends. I think the starting place should be removing stuff - try a month without Instagram; try a week without looking at fashion pictures. See how that affects your life, your friendships, and your ability to focus on other things.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Music is my way of taking my mind away from the game. When I'm singing, you don't got anything to worry about. Don't gotta worry about scoring however many points or winning the game. No matter how good or how bad you are, it's fun.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.

I don't like 3D movies that have things popping out of the screen. Firstly, I find it straining on my eyes, and more importantly, it distracts me from the movie.

Omarosa is a distraction. She's always been a distraction. She's never been a positive influence on anything to do with Donald Trump.

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

I don't know about you, but I feel like my day begins by blinking my eyes open, grabbing my phone, and just pouring poison directly into my cerebellum.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.

I think when you're coping with grimness perhaps you do get sillier and more escapist in what you want to see at the theatre.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords.

I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I've got such much to procrastinate with.

I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

Once I am out of the ground, I forget cricket or keep it away as far as possible, to lighten up.