distraction

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
fba0bde	"The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity."	distraction discipleship	St. Augustine of Hippo
f08159b	I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.	fear life distraction	Bret Easton Ellis
c7455c1	Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.	reading love orhan-pamuk distraction snow	Orhan Pamuk
f3e5904	"You keep distracting me," I tell her. "All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!" "Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j"	humor love distraction oliver	Jodi Picoult
d87f1e6	Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.	distraction	George Eliot
9f197d4	"Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!" Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked. "That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know."	laughter distraction wonderland crying	Lewis Carroll
197a110	Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.	distraction resistance	Steven Pressfield
ea73fdd	People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness. The black and the black and the black.	happy good dark people goodness darkness happiness fused grab grabbing scratch spider lights beyond web distraction see black surface distracted	John Fowles
364a6f0	I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.	thoughts humour mindfulness self-deprecation distraction crisis worry	Marian Keyes
cd341a2	Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.	leadership hesitation distraction procrastination	Frank Herbert
f8c7e73	The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.	sanctification distraction surrender obedience	Watchman Nee
4b9db60	You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.	fear distraction	George Eliot
6a68dd2	Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have to hand, in the computer, one of the most powerful tools of distraction ever invented. The entire internet is in a sense pornographic, a deliverer of a constant excitement that we have no innate capacity to resist, a seducer that leads us down paths that for the most part do nothing to answer our real needs.	boredom internet-addiction distraction pornography internet	Alain de Botton
1be6a5a	the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.	e-books distraction procrastination	Cory Doctorow
bae4afc	Being self-owned is a state of mind.	distraction discipleship materialism	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ea8605a	The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.	worship distraction worry	Victor Hugo
f8e27be	He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.	depression work distraction vocation	H.W. Brands
9206fba	Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.	suffering thought-life spiritual-warfare distraction	Robert Kurson
a7f21d4	If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.	ministry distraction vocation job focus	Barbara W. Tuchman
be5c3a2	Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.	distraction peer-pressure	Barbara W. Tuchman
ed12801	"The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."	idolatry distraction materialism	Pearl S. Buck
812f541	She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.	priorities distraction materialism ritual	Doris Kearns Goodwin
822d60e	When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies	coffee-houses studying distraction	Tom Standage
2fb2460	Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.	exposition preaching priorities distraction prophecy	Geraldine Brooks
3c56e47	he drawled. His grin turned a little less friendly, more bared teeth than smile. He stepped closer. I stepped back. he said. His look sent a shiver through me. He moved toward me, I sidestepped, leading him away.	liam distraction	Kelley Armstrong
711ae19	Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.	distraction materialism	Barbara W. Tuchman
0dcfc82	Murder was a fascination as always.	violence mortality entertainment distraction	Erik Larson

fba0bde

"The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity."

distraction discipleship

St. Augustine of Hippo

f08159b

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

fear life distraction

Bret Easton Ellis

c7455c1

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

reading love orhan-pamuk distraction snow

Orhan Pamuk

f3e5904

"You keep distracting me," I tell her. "All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!" "Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j"

humor love distraction oliver

Jodi Picoult

d87f1e6

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

distraction

George Eliot

9f197d4

"Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!" Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked. "That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know."

laughter distraction wonderland crying

Lewis Carroll

197a110

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

distraction resistance

Steven Pressfield

ea73fdd

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness. The black and the black and the black.

happy good dark people goodness darkness happiness fused grab grabbing scratch spider lights beyond web distraction see black surface distracted

John Fowles

364a6f0

I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

thoughts humour mindfulness self-deprecation distraction crisis worry

Marian Keyes

cd341a2

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

leadership hesitation distraction procrastination

Frank Herbert

f8c7e73

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.

sanctification distraction surrender obedience

Watchman Nee

4b9db60

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

fear distraction

George Eliot

6a68dd2

Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have to hand, in the computer, one of the most powerful tools of distraction ever invented. The entire internet is in a sense pornographic, a deliverer of a constant excitement that we have no innate capacity to resist, a seducer that leads us down paths that for the most part do nothing to answer our real needs.

boredom internet-addiction distraction pornography internet

Alain de Botton

1be6a5a

the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

e-books distraction procrastination

Cory Doctorow

bae4afc

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

distraction discipleship materialism

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

ea8605a

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

worship distraction worry

Victor Hugo

f8e27be

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

depression work distraction vocation

H.W. Brands

9206fba

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

suffering thought-life spiritual-warfare distraction

Robert Kurson

a7f21d4

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

ministry distraction vocation job focus

Barbara W. Tuchman

be5c3a2

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

distraction peer-pressure

Barbara W. Tuchman

ed12801

"The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them."

idolatry distraction materialism

Pearl S. Buck

812f541

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

priorities distraction materialism ritual

Doris Kearns Goodwin

822d60e

When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies

coffee-houses studying distraction

Tom Standage

2fb2460

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.

exposition preaching priorities distraction prophecy

Geraldine  Brooks

3c56e47

he drawled. His grin turned a little less friendly, more bared teeth than smile. He stepped closer. I stepped back. he said. His look sent a shiver through me. He moved toward me, I sidestepped, leading him away.

liam distraction

Kelley Armstrong

711ae19

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

distraction materialism

Barbara W. Tuchman

0dcfc82

Murder was a fascination as always.

violence mortality entertainment distraction

Erik Larson