Quotes About Diversion

I see myself as an entertainer.

I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.

Basketball is such an escape from a lot of things.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

I want to entertain viewers as much as possible.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

what-aboutery," the practice of diverting attention from the difficulty under discussion by raising a different problematic issue. ("Never mind X, what about Y?")

As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

When I get bored, I look through my entire phone to see if there are any cool options I missed.

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

Patients often report pain in a new location as the old one gets better. It is as though the brain is unwilling to give up this convenient strategy for diverting attention away from the realm of the emotions.

In 1971, the Bureau of Reclamation released a plan to divert six million acre-feet from the lower Mississippi River and create a river in reverse, pumping the water up a staircase of reservoirs to the high plains in order to save the irrigation economy of West Texas and eastern New Mexico, utterly dependent on groundwater, from collapse.

Don't despair when things don't go your way, maybe you were meant to be detoured.

while the scene-changing is going on behind it, actors present a divertissement.

Steven] King is an entertainment. King is a diversion. But when you try to take him as a guide to life, he won't work. The circles he draws on the deep are weak and irresolute. And this is so in part because King...is a sentimental writer. In his universe, the children...are good, right, just and true.... But bring this way of seeing the world out into experience and you'll pretty quickly pay for it. Your relation to large quadrants of experience...will likely be paranoid and fated to fail....

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.

Charlotte Huang, Going Geek

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.