271 Quotes About Distraction

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

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.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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

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

Be present to the people in frontof you from moment to moment.Electronics and technology have away of clouding our vision for the peoplesitting next to us. Uncloud your life, look around.Be present.

When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies

Giving an insignificant thing your attention is a form of self-disrespect.