Distracted Quotes - Page 10

• We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.

  Astra Taylor

  Technology, Wings, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?

  Astra Taylor

  Stupid, Talking, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.

  Arthur Bradford

  Writing, Night, Late

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.

  Rory Vaden

  Goal, Attention, Wake Up

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• What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

  Don DeLillo

  Memories, Years, Who You Are

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Falling Man”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

  Ted Cruz

  Military, Real, Issues

  Republican Debate, time.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Those citizens are distracted by the toys technology has supplied, and fail to recognize the ways in which what they most deeply want is made vulnerable by the coming disruptions of human relations on an over-heated planet.

  Philip Kitcher

  Technology, Citizens, Want

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.

  Syesha Mercado

  Superficial Things, Matter, Forget

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.

  DJ Khaled

  Journey, Stay Positive, Mountain

  Source: elitedaily.com

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• Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted.

  Kofi Annan

  Use, Sometimes, Distraction

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• Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

  Sam Altman

  Mistake, Common, Excited

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• I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

  Luis von Ahn

  Focus, Trying, Able

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• Remember thee!
  Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
  In this distracted globe.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Ghost, Remember

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

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• I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.

  Sarah Dessen

  Jobs, Giving Up, Writing

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Mind, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Kissing on screen is just, funny enough you're just acting so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am. I'm actually always coming away from those things going like, 'I wonder how I kissed just now.' Because I have no idea! I'm just thinking about what's happening.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Kissing, Thinking, Ideas

  "'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials': Dylan O'Brien Talks Stunts, Unromantic Romance and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted them. We do not see without our biases, our habits of life and thought.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Life, Book, Lazy

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• When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Play, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

  Dan Mangan

  Giving, Challenges, Ongoing

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.

  Adam Haslett

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: threeguysonebook.com

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• Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.

  Mehmet Oz

  Average, Together, Tvs

  "Dr. Oz Talks to Oprah About Food, Family and What It Really Means to Be Healthy". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Opportunity, Long

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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