Quotes about Distraction
We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.
— Dan Allender
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
— Charles Spurgeon
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
— Henry David Thoreau
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.
— Leonard Ravenhill
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
— Leonard Ravenhill
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.
— Joseph Wirthlin
The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.
— Robin Sharma
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
— Steven Pressfield
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
— AW Tozer
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
— Oswald Chambers
Whenever we have fifteen free minutes, an hour or two, we have the habit of using our computers or cell phones, music, or conversations to forget and to run away from the reality of the elements that make up our beings.
— Thich Nhat Hanh