The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.

Robert Bolt

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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.

Cory Doctorow

Tags: procrastination computers distraction e-books



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The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

Peter Kreeft

Tags: god saints prayer distraction



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Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.

David Brainard

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

Orhan Pamuk

Tags: reading books love distraction snow orhan-pamuk



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When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made my hands tingle and my thoughts switch to a different hemisphere, right brain rather than left, or left rather than right. In my mind there were many rooms and, just as I still got lost in the labyrinth of corridors at college, I often found myself lost, with a sense of déjà vu, in some obscure part of my cerebral cortex, the part of the brain that plays a key role in perceptual awareness, attention and memory. Everything I had lived through or imagined or dreamed appeared to have been backed up on a video clip and then scattered among those alien rooms. I could stumble into any number of scenes, from the horrifically sexual, horror-movie sequences that were crude and painful, to visualizing Grandpa polishing his shoes.

Alice Jamieson

Tags: mind cooking memory horror rape distraction brain attention mental-health deja-vu dissociation psychological trauma sexual-abuse survivor abuse child-sexual-abuse incest horror-movies dissociative-identity-disorder multiple-personality-disorder flashbacks dissociative dreamed



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To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind clearly process all of the day's experiences/memories - without distraction. And, perhaps, only in sleep, where there's nothing but mind, can the mind truly understand the meaning of these memories, as well, and assimilate them with all the other memories you've accumulated over time, forming greater meanings - unintelligible in the light of day - building, perhaps, to some ultimate meaning at the culmination of life - unintelligible in the light of living.

Mark X.

Tags: life experience sleep dreams dreaming thought living memory distraction memories



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Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

Arlaina Tibensky

Tags: computers creativity internet distraction



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