Quotes About Distraction

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

I've certainly done more than my fair share of pouncing on a stupid issue to win the news cycle of the day, to distract from what are real and important issues.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

If we sit here and think about what other teams are doing and the points game and all that, we're going to go crazy, and it's not going to help our game.

I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind.

With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that's a bonus.

Working is a great distraction technique.

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

I all but literally had a conversation with myself of like, 'You have to stop thinking about 'Ted Lasso.' It's not healthy to think about 'Ted Lasso,' it's not going to happen, it's just not going to happen, man.'

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing 'the most,' meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments: they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity.

I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible.

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

I hate phone calls, so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.' If you find yourself in the middle of something, getting an unprompted annoyance is incredibly frustrating.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

From what I can see people look at television to forget the horrors outside.