Quotes About Distraction

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live.

No consumas la parte de la vida que te resta en hacer conjeturas sobre otras personas, de no ser que tu objetivo apunte a un bien común; porque ciertamente te privas de otra tarea; a saber, al imaginar qué hace fulano y por qué, y qué piensa y qué trama y tantas cosas semejantes que provocan tu aturdimiento, te apartas de la observación de tu guía interior.

For verily thou dost hereby cut thyself off from other work, that is, by thinking what so and so is doing and why, what he is saying, having what in mind, contriving what, and all the many like things such as whirl thee aside from keeping close watch over thine own ruling Reason.

Precz z ksi??kami! Ju? nie dawaj siÄ™ im pociÄ…gn??! Nie wolno! (...) ?aknienie zaÅ› ksi??ek precz od siebie rzu?, byÅ› nie umieraÅ' wÅ›ród narzekaÅ", lecz spokojnie.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

But in the closeness of the sewing room, Simon can smell her as well as look at her. He tries to pay no attention but her scent is a distracting undercurrent. She smells like smoke; smoke, and laundry soap, and the salt from her skin; and she smells of the skin itself, with its undertone of dampness, fullness, ripeness - what? Ferns and mushrooms; fruits crushed and fermenting.

like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read.

She's been a distraction for him, but not a necessity of life. More like a super-strong mint: intense while it lasted but quickly finished.

She's been a distraction for him, but not a necessity of life. More like a super-strong mint: intense while it lasted, but quickly finished.

It's always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven't heard it. Then you don't have to answer.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing

Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.

Siempre es una imprudencia interponerse entre un hombre y el reflejo de su propia inteligencia

When you are sad it is best to change the subject.

Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic activity, they're actually wasting time. And

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man Twitter, and he will forget to eat and starve to death.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

The 'Net is a waste of time.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.