Quotes About Distraction

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Gaming was one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing. But even more than that, It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.

Addiction is finding a quick and dirty solution to the symptom of the problem, which prevents or distracts one from the harder and longer-term task of solving the real problem.

A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.

When folks around you do crazy things, it's the devil trying to distract you from your purpose.

When failure comes about through devoting precious hours to time-killing pursuits, we can all see that energy is being diverted from its proper channel.

Whatever the ostensible purpose may be, it is plain that one motive is at work in all these cases: the intention, often unconscious, to fill life so full of secondary activities or substitute activities that there will be no time in which to perform the best work of which one is capable. The intention, in short, is to fail.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

Realizing when a diversion has gotten out of control is one of the great challenges of life.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

cell phones were the ultimate distraction, carefully designed and evolved to become as addictive as possible.

Allie's job required very deep, very sustained thinking. And cell phones were the ultimate distraction, carefully designed and evolved to become as addictive as possible.

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

Know Im ready for whatever, ready for the action. Im still focused on my sh-t, but girl Im up for a distraction.

Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

There's something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.