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“You're never happy if [your main focus in life is that] you want to be happy. Then you're always thinking about whether you're happy. You have to find some other thing that isn't happiness that makes you happy that you focus on.”
― Hank Green

“Are you healed or just distracted? Don’t confuse the two.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The ability to memorize a very large number of things is not nearly as valuable as the ability to tell what is worth remembering.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He felt the craving within him, the need to be entertained. And they all felt this way; the settlement yearned for the bizarre.”
― Philip K. Dick, Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

“There is no sense in refusing honours. That is in fact to do them too much honour. The only strategy is to act so that they never weigh upon you.

Your delicious (and malicious) certainty that you are a beautiful woman only subjugates yourself. How is one to approach her to be subjugated oneself?

It seems difficult to meet the woman of your life when you have several (lives). In fact, as soon as you have a double life . . .

Popular fame is what we should aspire to. Nothing will ever match the distracted gaze of the woman serving in the butcher's who has seen you on television.

With their feet caught in the ice like the pink flamingos, they still thought they were God's gift to mankind.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“The one thing Dante never considered is that hell would be a place that the overwhelming majority LOVE. American Idol and X-Factor - these are programmes created by the elite to provide “bread and circusesâ€� to the masses, and how the masses flock to the Colosseum. What they haven’t realised - because they’re too stupid - is that they’re the “Christiansâ€� being fed to the lions. They’re watching the annihilation of their hopes of a good life, and yet they’re laughing and cheering! That demonstrates the extent of the elite’s mind control over them. Every second you spend watching junk TV is a wasted second, and if you watch a huge amount of shit, you’ve wasted your life.”
― Adam Weishaupt, The Illuminati Manifesto

“We live in a world that suffers from “status quo biasâ€�. This means that change is resisted just because it’s change. People want to be safe and secure in familiar surroundings, with familiar people and familiar routines. Average people simply don’t like change. They don’t want it. Boredom is supposed to spur people on to change things, to change their life. However, nowadays, we have endless diversion tactics, endless ways of staving off boredom with the TV, movies, music, video games, online gambling and porn, and so on. All this means that it’s harder than ever to bring about real change.”
― Mike Hockney, The Omega Point

“What are you making?"
"It doesn't matter. I'm only cooking so that I can smell something besides you."
There was that edge in his voice again.
He turned up the fire and poured oil into a skillet and water into a pot and then he lined up the jars of spice that Louise kept on the countertop: parsley, oregano, bay leaves, pepper, and thyme, and mini branches of herbs, including basil and dill as well as some lemons and fresh cloves of garlic. He added them to the oil. His plan worked- the kitchen filled up with new odors that did not quite overcome my own, but were certainly gaining ground.
"The ancient Romans wore bay leaves on their heads for virility," he said.
"You don't need any," I said.
"Borage is used to induce abortion. We learned that in the first year of med school."
"I don't need any."
"Arabs believe that cardamom builds good feelings among friends."
"We don't need any other people in our lives."
"I'm showing off, you know."
"I know. Keep going."
"Let's see. Curry powder should always be browned in butter. Fenugreek is hairy and it'll make you dream of sex. Ginger makes men horny, but not women. Lavender should be spread on the bedsheets. Not yours, of course, we don't need to add any more scent to your bed, but it can also be used in making soup."
"I'm impressed.”
― Margot Berwin, Scent of Darkness

“To give something or someone your attention is to give it or them a portion of your life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are not that busy; we are just distracted.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“We have more choice than ever before, but no matter what we choose, we have lost the ability to really pay attention to it.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari & How We Got to Now Six Innovations that Made the Modern World By Steven Johnson 2 Books Collection Set

“The world is one stage with a platform for all. You have a voice. Shout. Or lose the voice you were divinely given to your own distractions.”
― Richie Norton

“Stay away from cable news, polemical magazines, tabloids, cynical videos (including supposedly funny videos of people being hurt) and newspapers filled with negative messages and horrible pictures. Alien Parasites enter your mind when you read and see this kind of malignant information. Here you are faced with a dilemma. Many individuals want to be informed about the world around them. However, it is easy to be manipulated into believing that you need to be familiar with all the information that the news services are telling you that you must know. You have a responsibility to prioritize your life. This responsibility is to yourself alone. That is to say, once you have decided on your goals in life, you are only sabotaging yourself if you spend your time involved in activities that will not lead you to your goals. The Alien Parasites want to distract you as much as possible from anything having to do with spirituality.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“While in any academic field of study, it is either you fall in love with books and avoid going into emotional affairs with humans, or the other way round, but you cannot possibly focus on the both at the same time because love is as powerful as being able to cause distraction.”
― Elijah Onyemmeri

“Over half of the internet is a dump for useless information.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The addictive nature of social media and technology sends people into a pitfall of:
-Dopamine Hits
-Distractions
-Meaningless Actions”
― Ethan Castro

“An alarum for waking life, the telephone. It’s the trustiest tool to yank someone away from actual productivity.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“These damn things! They distract then don’t work, they’re altogether terrible! Phones!”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Instead of dissipating our life in mere commotion, let us endeavor to recollect it so that our activity may be more profound, more consistent and lasting, and directed to eternity.”
― Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Providence: God's loving care for men and the need for confidence in Almighty God

“In any academic field, it's either fall in love with books and avoid engaging in emotional affairs with people, or vice versa, but you can't possibly focus on both at the same time because love is so powerful that it can cause distraction.”
― Godwin Elijah

“When people can’t bury themselves with work, they can’t run away from their feelings and all it needs is a little free time to reveal who they are.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Truly paying attention to something or someone makes it or them seem as big as the universe.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Careful with pre-assumptions. A pre-assumption may be a distraction by default.”
― oscarpmlopes

“The internet and social media have turned the average employee’s cell phone into a labour-wasting device.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

“Technological fruits such as audiobooks are food for the illusion that we can really do more than one thing at the same time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If more people hadn't been at home, sitting around the TV, watching the game, they would have been on freeways, they would have been out in the world, where it was collapsing, just falling apart.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“When you can manage your time and block out unnecessary distractions and mute the “noiseâ€� that tends to send you into a state of confusion and disarray, you are better able to give the people, work, and activities the enthusiasm they deserve, to make it every moment of the day count, and to dedicate the time and effort each person deserves.”
― Carlos Wallace

“We think about going to the gym while we are at work. We think about work while exercising at the gym. We think about the errands we need to run while socializing with friends. We think about socializing with friends while running errands. There are many times where our body may be in one place, but our mind is elsewhere. These are internally driven multitasking distractions. Some are harmless, but when we choose to monotask, we can do everything better.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“Smartphones are source of distraction, I am not using it anymore.”
― Santosh Kumar