Quotes About Distraction

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

Revenons à nos moutons [Let us return to our sheep (i.e., subject)].

Think of yourself in a concert hall listening to the strains of the sweetest music when you suddenly remember that you forgot to lock your car. You are anxious about the car, you cannot walk out of the hall and you cannot enjoy the music. There you have a perfect image of life as it is lived by most human beings.

The great Chinese sage Tranxu puts it marvelously: "When the archer shoots for nothing, he has all his skill. When he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. When he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind. He's out of his mind. He sees two targets. His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting. And the need to win drains him of power.

En primer lugar, tus apegos: inevitablemente, siempre prestarás atención a lo que favorece o pone en peligro dichos apegos, y fingirás no ver lo demás. Lo demás

Si quieres verlas tal como ellas son, debes prestar atención a tus apegos y a los miedos que tales apegos engendran. Porque, cuando encaras la vida, son esos apegos y esos miedos los que deciden qué es lo que tienes que ver y lo que tienes que ignorar. Y sea cual sea lo que veas, ello va a absorber tu atención.

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not shifting so the desk frame doesn't go screek screek, not breathing so he doesn't smell any smells, but sweat is trickling down his ribs, and Wesley Ohman keeps opening and closing the Velcro on his left shoe, and Tony Molinari's lips are going poppoppop, and Mrs. Onegin is writing a huge, terrible A-M-E-R-I-C- on the whiteboard, the marker tip rasping and squeaking, the classroom clock ticktickticking, and all these sounds race into his head like hornets into a nest.

I do bad at school because sometimes I think when I should be learning.

Our motto instead is, "Work—or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty." Turn up the noise.

From Antony's point of view, the arrival of Caesar's heir was an annoying distraction.

It's none of my business, but sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.

I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

When I was younger, I did have some dresses that weren't the best fits, and it can definitely affect you during a match - if you're having to constantly pull the dress down, for example!

Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.

When you're overthinking a thought like the way I do, I can get completely pulled away from something I'm in the middle of because my thought channel just won't help me get from point A to point B without any difficulty.