271 Quotes About Distraction

Far too often my priorities become the things that are right in front of me rather than being the things that create the foundation underneath me.

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn’t listening.


Love is one of the most motivating and self-defining forces in our lives, whether we turn from it or allow ourselves to be drawn to it. If you allow romantic possibilities with others to consume all your time and energy, they will distract you from the things of interest that fill your life with passion and purpose.

An alarum for waking life, the telephone. It’s the trustiest tool to yank someone away from actual productivity.

This I do, being mad:Gather baubles about me,Sit in a circle of toys, and all the timeDeath beating the door in.

Distractions make life seem way shorter than it is.

Creating chaos provides excitement for some people, especially those who are uneasy with silence, those who distract themselves from their own problems by focusing outward, those who feel empty inside and need to fill themselves up with activity, and those who were raised in an environment in which harmony and peace were unknown.

We are life in the age of so much fuckin notification distract our focus.