It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.