Quotes About Distraction

and it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking

Ted had the uneasy sense that the child was spinning them out as a way of filling the time, distracting them both from whatever was going on inside the house. And this made her seem much older than she really was, a tiny little woman, knowing, world-weary, too accepting of life's burdens even to mention them.

At the beginning he'd thought of his style as being his essence, the perfect expression of who he was inside, but lately the styles had started to feel like disguises, distractions Danny could move around behind without being seen. 27

Being only where you were was incomplete, but being not at all where you were (because you were getting upset by the conversation you were having on your cell phone) was flat-out hazardous. That's when you walked in front of cars.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Pay no attention to this sledgehammer!

Seriously?" Xander wheezed. "You're playing strip bowling without me? Never mind. Focus! This is me focusing.

The thing about sleeping is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. Complete waste of time

Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

She drove us all to distraction, but she had the sweetest smile and so no one could stay angry with her for long.

There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see.

Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.

Also everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

It's a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn't have to talk to grownups.

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

Foaly was well aware that he was babbling about hoof drawings in order to distract himself from the current situation. He had often assisted Holly through one crisis or another. But he had rarely been in the field to actually witness these crises occurring. The video logs never really capture the emotion, he thought. I am scared out of my wits right now, but no helmet-cam footage can convey that.

Shut up, idiot. I'm counting bongs.

She'd never been able to concentrate on one thing in her entire life. Maybe that was it. Life wasn't here to distract her now.

Evil is a by-product of forgetfulness, laziness, or distraction: it arises when we lose sight of our true aim in life

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness.

the most famous people in the world today don't address the world's most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance. They