Quotes About Distraction

Pasmo sempre quando acabo qualquer coisa. Pasmo e desolo-me. O meu instinto de perfeição deveria inibir-me de acabar; deveria inibir-me até de dar começo. Mas distraio-me e faço. O que consigo é um produto, em mim, não de uma aplicação de vontade, mas de uma cedência dela. Começo porque não tenho força para pensar; acabo porque não tenho alma para suspender. Este livro é a minha cobardia.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life

Those who think with their reason tend to be distracted. Those who think with their emotions are sleeping. Those who think with their will are dead.

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Tiny concerns as well as large worries distract us from ourselves, hindering the peace of mind we all aspire to, whether we know it or not.

No tenemos, es cierto, un concepto de valor de aplicación a la obra que realizamos. La realizamos, es verdad, para distraernos, pero no como el preso que teje el esparto tratando de distraer al Destino, sino como la niña que borda almohadas para distraerse sin más. Considero la vida un apeadero donde tengo que esperar hasta que llegue la diligencia del abismo. No

Nunca he podido leer un libro entregándome a él; siempre, a cada paso, el comentario de la inteligencia o de la imaginación me ha interrumpido la secuencia de la propia narrativa. Después de unos minutos, quien escribía era yo, y lo que estaba escrito no estaba en ninguna parte.

Mas só a ideia de ler se me desvanece se tomo de cima da mesa um livro qualquer, o facto físico de ter que ler anula-me a leitura.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

The phone's never far away. The TV's always on. We are constantly on the news cycle; either watching the news, making the news, talking about the news.

There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.

I rather like getting away from fiction.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

The years I had the 100 centuries, I should probably have had around 120 because I got addicted like hell to 'Fifa 14.'

I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete, you have got problems.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

I used to review games on 'The Totally Rad Show,' and the best thing about that was I would finish games. Now, it's become challenging for me to actually sit through an entire game. I tend to get excited about the next shiny thing.