Quotes About Distraction

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Personally as a rider, I find the helmet distracts me. I can't hear as well and I can't see as well. I also believe loud pipes save lives and my pipes straight through with no baffles in them.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

I prayed maybe he hadn't seen me after all, that maybe he'd taken off after a sinner or a squirrel, instead.

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He either doesn't hear me or isn't listening

They are talking to me and around me, but I can't hear them. I pretend to be interested in one of my books, but the words dance on the page.

Me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him.

However, these days everyone holds their stupid smartphone in front of them the entire time in case somebody likes a dog picture on Facebook and they miss it by two seconds...

You know, on the bus, everyone used to read books. But then they were fiddling on their phones or those big phones, I don't know what they're called.

What have anxiety-creating engines designed to distract, enervate, and worry you got to do with your mental health?

Use your inner resources. Stop trying to distract yourself with tiny pictures and other people's lives. You're distracting yourself from things you ought to be owning up to.

It's hard to concentrate when your feelings are hurt.

I keep trying to block it out, but it keeps on coming back.

I'm glad to have her company to take my mind off things.

I don't know if you want my help, Katherine. See, I'm really distracting to women. I make them lose their count." Peter winks at her and I make a gagging sound. "Why don't you stay down here and help us bake?

I hated it when he played the guitar. He'd sit there, strumming, halfway paying attention, only halfway present. He'd hum to himself, and he was someplace else. We'd be watching TV, or playing cards, and he'd be strumming the guitar. Or he'd be in his room, practicing. For what, I didn't know. All I knew was that it took time away from us.

Every time I have to take my eyes away from the road, even for a second, I feel so much panic in my chest.

He tells me that smart houses are coming, that soon everything in our lives will be hooked up to the internet of things, blah, blah, blah, and we will be connected through social media to every other person in the world. He asks me what my favored platforms are. I explain that I don't use any of them because they make me feel too squirrelly. Or not exactly squirrelly, more like a rat who can't stop pushing a lever. Pellet of affection! Pellet of rage! Please, please, my pretty!

Maybe it's an attention-span thing. Music is now the backdrop to our lives rather than an event in itself. We put on a CD while we're doing something else. I can't remember the last time I put on an album and listened to it in a chair with my eyes closed.