Quotes About Distraction

Stop Managing Your Time. Start Managing Your Focus.

An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production.

Don't pick up the phone every time it rings. It is there for your convenience, not the convenience of others.

too many people dilute their cognitive bandwidth and fragment their attention, accepting poor performances and ordinary achievements while leading lives of disappointing mediocrity.

The telephone is there for your convenience, not for the convenience of your callers. Yet, as soon as we hear the phone ring, we act as if we are firefighters rushing to a five-alarm fire. We run to pick it up as if our lives depended on the call being answered at once. I have seen people interrupt quiet family dinners, dedicated reading times and meditation periods to answer

The majority of us have been hypnotized out of the luminosity that is our essence. Most of us in this age spend our most valuable hours being busy being busy.

Stop managing your time and start managing your focus

Mess lowers your self-control as well as steals your cognitive bandwidth.

there's a staggering difference between being busy and being productive.

Stop picking up the phone every time it rings, stop wasting time reading junk mail, stop eating out three times a week, give up your golf-club membership and spend more time with your kids, spend a day a week without your watch, watch the sun rise every few days, sell your cellular phone and dump the pager.

La adicción a la distracción es la muerte de producción creativa.

Your attraction to digital interruption is costing you your fortune—financially, cognitively, energetically, physically and spiritually.

When you're up early and all alone, away from the overstimulation and noise, your attention isn't being fragmented by technology, meetings and other forces that can limit maximum productivity," mused the billionaire. "And so the prefrontal cortex, that part of your brain responsible for rational thinking—as well as constant worrying—actually shuts off for a short time.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

our modern world that spends huge amounts of their irreplaceable lifetime watching streams of selfies, the breakfasts of virtual friends and violent video games

people are making more mistakes in their work than ever before because they aren't present to what they're doing. Their precious concentration has been hijacked by a foolish use of technology and their priceless focus has been kidnapped, costing them their chance to create their best work and calibrate their finest lives.

the world all day long chatting endlessly on your phone about one thousand senseless things or

La gran mayoría de nuestro mundo moderno, la que pasa una enorme cantidad de su irremplazable tiempo vital mirando ráfagas de selfis, el desayuno de sus amigos virtuales y videojuegos violentos, tildaría de «locura» esta dedicación a la optimización del conocimiento —

Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.

She was in the book again and, by the time she got to page-turning time again, she'd forgetting I was there.

As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one cell phone may be regarded as a misfortune; to go through seventy looks like carelessness.

The pursuit of absolute or ideal beauty may distract us from the more urgent business of getting things right. It is well and good for philosophers, poets and theologians to point towards beauty in its highest form. But for most of us it is far more important to achieve order in the things surrounding us, and to ensure that the eyes, the ears and the sense of fittingness are not repeatedly offended.

That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it's when we're busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.