Quotes About Distraction

In other words: Spend more time in the TPN focusing on a single task. We know what you might be thinking: The whole point is that I can't focus on a single task! But you can—you are already a master of distraction, so now distract yourself. Productivity isn't the point here. Moving the toggle switch is.

In fact, we do not suffer from a deficit of attention. Just the opposite. We've got an overabundance of attention, more attention than we can cope with; our constant challenge is to control it.

Always valuable, your attention has now also become one of your most insecure assets and most-sought-after possessions.

Eldredge has just said gives a pretty good short description of ADD: You don't mean to do the things you do do, and you don't do the things you mean to do.

Unless we get off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog — keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.

In an age hungry for young men of talent, this was no time to be distracted by a flower along the wayside.

many injurious habits result from our efforts to fill empty time.

I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase "mere child.

Bright Blue Day   SOMEHOW Maddie could not buckle down to work. She sharpened her pencil

I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them.

In the crush men used the women to play silent games with themselves. One stared ironically at a dark-haired girl to see if she would lower her gaze. One, with his eyes, caught a bit of lace between two buttons of a blouse, or harpooned a strap. Others passed the time looking out the window into cars for a glimpse of an uncovered leg, the play of muscles as a foot pushed break or clutch, a hand absentmindedly scratching the inside of a thigh.

Solo se dejaba distraer, si es que se puede decir así, por otro motivo de sufrimiento. Un dolor nuevo obraba en ella como una especie de antídoto.

tenía miedo de que me acusaran de ser como era de hecho, distraída y ausente, concentrada en mí misma.

esto ocurre cuando en la cabeza tienes un clamor y sigues escribiendo como al dictado, incluso cuando estás haciendo la compra

The anecdote appears in Théophile Gautier's 1859 biography of Balzac. I wondered if it could be shown that Babel had read Gautier. Then I wondered whether there was anything to eat at home. There wasn't. I got in my car and was driving down El Camino Real when my cell phone started ringing.

But you aren't really looking!" she exclaimed. "You are—" She flipped through her dictionary. "Wool, gathering!" "That's true," I said. "I am woolgathering." "You are thinking about your friend," she said. "That's why you don't want to listen to me." "But Rózsa. Don't you ever like to . . . to do woolgathering?" "No! I am not a dreamer.

Rejig or shuffling of members is usually like juggling the same odd (old/new) balls from one hand to another for whiling away time & entertaining the dumbo audience that something magical is happening,but actually nothing.

So-called experts or panelists in the prime time TV show verbally fight tooth and nail over a subject to not to bring any solution, but to create often commotion to divert the attention of the ordinary population from the main problem of the nation.

Some bogus news do not see any conclusion because they are used from time to time for diverting people's attention and diffusing confusion.

The best way to avoid any topic to even discuss is to jointly create ruckus.

The bigger the controversy, the bigger the chance of it being either a diversionary tactics or mere publicity.

The easiest way to divert away the general public attention from their main concern is to start a vociferous debate on a trifle topic through hired people keeping some in favour and others against it and to make them vocally fight on the mainstream and social media platform.