Quotes About Distraction

Staring isn't difficult. I can do it all day long. Without blinking, if I want to, which is sometimes painful, but always useful. The trick is to not really look at them, but to focus ten yards beyond, on nothing, which produces a glassy effect, which makes them worry, mostly about what's going on behind your empty eyes.

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.

thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?" So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing

I couldn't afford to learn it," said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. "I only took the regular course." "What was that?" inquired Alice. "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Estás pensando en algo, querida, y eso hace que te olvides de hablar.

Said the Mock Turtle with a sight, I only took the regular course. What was that? inquired Alice. Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with, the Mock Turtle replied, and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.