Distraction Quotes

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

Murder was a fascination as always.

This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

Never let anyone or anything distract you from noticing how amazing you are.

Nothing distracts one from one's true purpose in life more than following the crowd mentality.

We are all temporary visitors on earth, and we owe it to ourselves to never let any negative condition distract us from the beauty of life.

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn’t really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.

He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.

To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.

When the world seems to be spinning out of control I choose:faith over fear

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.

Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.