Distraction Quotes

"Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you" "Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that." "I am so busy doing nothing that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything." "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." "The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied." "I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering." "The most valuable resource in the modern economy is attention" "Each person allocates his or her limited attention either by focusing it intentionally like a beam of energy or by diffusing it in desultory random movements " "When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure" "You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption." "All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate." "Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else" "People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do" "I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction" "The wine of this fleeting world caused you and me to forget " "I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system." "The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise" "Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction" "Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking"