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Quotes about Distraction

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
— John Donne
Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.
— Joel Osteen
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.
— Maya Angelou
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
— Alice Hoffman
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
— George W. Bush
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
— Dante Alighieri
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
— William Wilberforce
Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.
— John Maxwell
Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!
— Henry David Thoreau
Delegators love to pull people into meetings, too. In fact, meetings are a delegator's best friend. That's where he gets to seem important. Meanwhile, everyone else who attends is pulled away from getting real work done.
— Jason Fried
An owner unknowingly scattering people's attention is a common cause of the question "Why's everyone working so much but nothing's getting done?
— Jason Fried
The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely. When you work on your own, far away from the buzzing swarm at headquarters, you can settle into your own productive zone. You can actually get work done—the same work that you couldn't get done at work! Yes
— Jason Fried