Quotes About Distraction

Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.

How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?

W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other." ? Ford Madox Ford, Critical Essays of Ford Madox Ford

Gargantua heaved a deep sigh, and said to those with him: 'This is not the first time that men called to the Gospel faith are persecuted. But happy indeed is he who is not offended and shall always aim at the mark or target that God, by His dear Son, has set up for us, and shall not be distracted or lured aside by his carnal affections.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment.

She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?' Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez's novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.

Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let's imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress.

Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten. Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

Tribulation came from losing sight of Jesus and looking at the troubled, fallen world. Peter walked on water until he took his eyes off Jesus.

Habían pasado veinticuatro horas y seguía dispersa y absorta jugando con el caos; como si su destino fuera un rompecabezas.

will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying.

Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.

The present is distraction; the future a dream; only memory can unlock the meaning of life.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation

we're constantly watched and always distracted

world in which we're constantly watched and always distracted.

A piece like a segment has been cut out of the back of his head. The sun looks in and the whole world with it. It makes him nervous, it distracts him from his work, and moreover it irritates him that he should be the very one excluded from the spectacle.

The distraction, the weakness of memory, the stupidity!

No, hay algo más para hoy: si usted distrae un solo minuto de su sueño para dedicarlo a la tarea de traducción será como si me estuviera maldiciendo. Porque si algún día se me somete a juicio, no habrá largas investigaciones, bastará con afirmar: él la privó del sueño. Eso bastará para que me condenen, y con razón. De modo que estoy luchando por mí cuando le ruego que no vuelva a hacer algo así.