Distracted Quotes

“Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this:
Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?'
Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.'
Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?'
Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.'
Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.'
Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.”
― Kelly Moran, In diesem Moment

“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.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The book,' Nesta said, a bit breathlessly, 'is about...' Her nostrils flared and her eyes went a bit unfocused. 'A book.'

'Interesting,' Cassian murmured. 'Sounds great.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our Cross

Our little circle hides in the mind,
It's difficult to miss but hard to find,
It goes unspoken but yet it speaks,
From backward years to forward weeks,
We can't forget but why even try,
Two of a kind doesn't know goodbye,
It's a silent question that God won't share,
A breeze we feel but seems unfair,
Distant, rare but only madness can see,
It's something deeper than any infinity,
Because we walk this parallel path up and down,
There is no circle to hold us circus clowns,
So let's give it a symbol and label it a loss,
We will remember it always as we carry our cross.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Distractions make life seem way shorter than it is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One of the major destruction of man is distraction”
― Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

“They were halfway across the road when a birdcall tugged her back, pulling at some strange, secret part of her. A crow, she thought, from its husky caw---she had already learned to recognize most of the birds that sang in her parents' garden, and crows were her favorite. There was something intelligent---almost human---about their sly voices and dark, luminous eyes.
Kate turned, scanning the trees that lined the road behind them. And there it was: a velvet flash of black, shocking against the lurid green and blue of the June day. A crow, just as she'd thought.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“As a species, we haven’t evolved to plan 20 years into the future. As a rule, our decision-making is myopic, shortsighted, and lacks imagination. We’re heavily incentivized to seek rewards in the present, which can greatly cost our long-term Future Selves.

[If you don't] think and strategize long term, [you'll be distracted by the short-term.]
You’ll be caught up by endless distractions throughout your day.
Your decisions will be myopic.
You’ll cost your Future Self greatly, putting them deeper in debt in all ways.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?”
― Joyce Rachelle

“We would rarely waste time if it were earned.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Welhewan is charming us,' Sasha says in an unsure voice. 'It is trying to soothe us with its lullaby. Do not let yourself . . . Oh, a butterfly. Look how beautiful it is! No, don't look. The forest is making us happy, and we cannot let it.”
― Sarah Dalton, White Hart

“T. S. Eliot wrote, ‘Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.’ We long for this, and yet we check our smartphones every ten minutes for news, texts, distraction.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

“The chances of the driver’s mind being on the road are usually way too low when on a highway.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I used to be really fast at watching movies. If one flick was 90 minutes long, I would be done in an hour and a half. Now it might take me weeks to finish that same film.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“People who are distracted by door money, neglect the production and the audience. Money becomes their god. They sacrifice their reputation in favor of building revenue. Believe me; the former is more difficult to recover if lost.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Who cares? My balls are wet! The city is going to shit and you guys are yapping about this crap, as if we don’t have a worry in the world.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Lee Gruenfield, novelist: It's human nature, this propensity in the face of the profound to be distracted by the trivial.”
― Larry C. Spears, Focus on Leadership: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-First Century

“I was once held hostage by a patient in the hospital. I was fortunate I knew the department layout and I was able to free myself by darting out of a door while my terrorist was distracted.”
― Steven Magee

“Distracted people preach presence.
Present people preach the future.
Futurists harken the past.
It’s not irony.
It’s logic.

The challenge of being present is remembering to stay present in the future as you did in the past.”
― Richie Norton

“She says whatever comes into her head and then she forgets it right after she said it. She's serious when she says it, but after that she might as well have never said a thing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“We scroll,
we click,
we swipe,
racing through digital static,
each distraction a fleeting sedative,
numbing the quiet dread gnawing
at the edges of our withering hearts.

We remain distant,
mere spectators to our own lives,
as the hours slip
like grains of sand through the hourglass,
and only now, in the suffocating silence,
do we sense the weight of all that’s slowly slipping away.”
― Sean DeLaney

“I am often too consumed with living to determine if that’s what I’m actually doing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We tediously parse the verb all the while ignoring the action demanded of us by the verb.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you can make time for frivolities, then you have no excuse for not doing the same for things that will secure your future.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Distracted but not discouraged.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita