Quotes About Distraction

A little time passed, with nothing to distract him from the full enjoyment and appreciation of his new array of physical sensations. He'd thought he'd sampled every sort of agony in the catalogue, but the goons' shock-sticks had found out nerves and synapses and ganglial knots he'd never known he possessed. Nothing like pain, to concentrate the attention upon the self.

Distraction Slow Ride

He was going to get rid of the delivery person, throw the food in the kitchen, then get back to his real dinner. Violet

He calls you occasionally at the office to ask how you are. You doodle numbers and curlicues on the corners of Rolodex cards. Fiddle with your Phi Beta Kappa key. Stare out the window. You always, always, say: Fine.

People who are sinful tend to be lazy because they focus not on their responsibilities but on their fears. That which they fear distracts and even incapacitates them from faithful obedience.

La juventud ama la impostura como los perritos aman los palos de madera, los huesos que les tiran... ¡y corren detrás de ellos!, se precipitan, ladran, pierden el tiempo...

Well, it's very distracting when we have to keep saying every card out loud," complained East. "I'm sorry my partner's blindness makes life so difficult for you," said Gloria.

Don't let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes, whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie's black head towered above the rest. He has promised to be very good today, and he can be perfectly elegant if he likes, returned Amy, gliding away to war Hergules to beware of the dragon, which warning cased him to haunt the old lady with a devotion that nearly distracted her.

the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted

Don't grieve and fret or think that you can comfort yourself by being idle and trying to forget. Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy.

I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

I think it would do you good to get away from the office and get your mind off business for a while.

Worst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.

La identidad de cada cual es algo fugitivo y casual y cambiante, de modo que, si dejas de mirar a alguien durante un tiempo largo, puedes perderlo para siempre, igual que si estás siguiendo con la vista a un pececillo en un inmenso acuario y de repente te distraes, y cuando vuelves a mirar ya no hay quien lo distinga de entre todos los otros de su especie.

How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not counting the others -- and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains!

He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back up. Each toe and finger separately, just to waste time. He lost his place somewhere on the right hand.

Only you would think of Sholom Aleichem to make the people forget for a little while.

At one extreme...the hours seemed to aggregate and sell like a wave, swallowing huge chunks of her day. At the other extreme when her attention was disengaged and fractured she experienced time at its most granular wherein moments hung around like particles diffused and suspended and standing in water. There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focussed but vast and time felt like a limpid pool ringed by sunlit ferns.

Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention?

I hate email. It's so slow. On email it's never now. It's always then, which is why it's so easy to get lazy and let your inbox fill up.

noise-canceling headphones

believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.