Quotes about Distraction

Being a lifeguard was boring. Bo-ring. It was an indoor pool and it's so hot and humid in there. All you can do is sit there - you can't have music on because you need to pay attention and not be distracted. So you're just sat there, you're looking at people swim up and down, up and down. That was so boring.

Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.8

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.