Quotes About Distraction

The strange thing about being a mother is how often I'm interrupted. Like something is happening and then something else is happening. It is difficult to get a good grasp on things.

Know thyself. Then know that you are a human being, a member of the species of mankind. So know first and foremost that you do not know, and what you claim to know is almost certainly a means of distracting yourself from what you really know.

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

O, the conflicting selves jostling and joggling within these bags of skin. No wonder we are unable to remain focused on anything for very long; no wonder we invent remote-control channel-hopping devices. If we turned these instruments upon ourselves we'd discover more channels than a cable or satellite mogul ever dreamed of...

a person must sometimes choose what he will see and what he will not; look away, look away from there now.

A man under the enchantment of love," the stowaway thought, "is a man easily distracted and led.

The principal enemy of mindfulness—or of any meditative practice—is our deeply conditioned habit of being distracted by thoughts. The problem is not thoughts themselves but the state of thinking without knowing that we are thinking.

In fact, beginning meditators often think that they are able to concentrate on a single object, such as the breath, for minutes at a time, only to report after days or weeks of intensive practice that their attention is now carried away by thought every few seconds. This is actually progress. It takes a certain degree of concentration to even notice how distracted you are. Even if your life depended on it, you could not spend a full minute free of thought.

the truth is that most people are simply too distracted by their thoughts to have the selflessness of consciousness pointed out directly.

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

I don't let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

She did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head thus in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.

War is a distraction: we gain everything by it; we can only lose one thing by it—life—then so much the worse!