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 "