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Distraction Quotes

"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."

"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."

"Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else"

"You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption."

"Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction"

"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept drifting"

"Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"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"

"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 "

"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate."

"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."

"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise"

"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do"

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