distraction

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

After giving it some thought, I've decided to name my monkey mind Ricky Bobby. I was thinking about Latin names like Javier, but I don't want to make my jumping, distractable self sound mysterious and sexy. Ricky Bobby makes me laugh. A name like that seems silly, not strong. Just a goofy little thing that doesn't know what to do with its hands, likes to go fast, and loves tiny, infant, baby Jesus.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

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

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn__ really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.