Quotes about Distraction

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

It made my heart ache to think of this miserable trifling, in the streets of a city where every stone seemed to call to me, as I walked along, 'Turn this way, man, and see what waits to be done!' So I decoyed myself into another train of thought to ease my heart.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.

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