Quotes About Distraction

I don't know why, but it seems to be a common story for actors and comedians to have a tendency to be bad students and have difficulty focusing on things.

Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

The first duty of government is to ensure its citizens are protected, but ID cards could never have done that. They would have been a distraction from the real work that needs to be done in countering terrorism, illegal immigration or benefit fraud.

If a man's stomach has been filled by eating greens and other vegetables, although the most precious dainties with exquisite tastes should be given him, he cannot swallow them, he must first get rid of a few portions of the greens; so in reading, the same is true of the mixed thoughts which distract the mind, which are about the dusty affairs of a vulgar world.

His eye contact with his partner had improved. Scoble wasn't constantly staring at and tapping on the small screen of his phone, as he was so prone to do. Glass had improved the way we related to each other.

Contemporaries knew him as the man with the bulging brief-case, hurrying from one place, one meeting, to another. His life was embedded in a dense mass of miscellaneous activities which both fertilized and distracted him from his writing. His failure to produce a major work of theory till 1930, when he was almost 50, was the price he paid.

Hours spent compulsively masturbating to online pornography or pursuing potential sex partners on dating or social media sites and apps are hours not spent developing one's career, nurturing one's spouse and/or children, hanging out with friends, enjoying hobbies, and engaging in various other necessary forms of self-care.

refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

There isn't much in a man's head that can't be cured by working and taking care of something else

You can never see anything clearly when you're running.

A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.

She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books.

But there was something about him—his voice, the way he listened to her when she spoke, his gaze. It was hypnotic. Mako was always on his phone. If he wasn't, he was distracted by his own thoughts. Not that he didn't love her, that they didn't connect often enough. But it was new to feel like someone was hanging on her every word.

Mako show. Not always, but definitely during the workday. He'd bluster in, full of big ideas, or complaints, or ranting about this or that. He'd take up all her energy, without even meaning to.

Watching TV puts your own hell into a different perspective, if that's what you want. Today I do.

His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.

The noise level subsided, as if people were distracted with

I do know, dividing our energies among a thousand what-ifs instead of concentrating them for the one sure next-step is a kind of self-sabotage. It's not what we do next week, it's what we do next that counts most.