Cognitive Distraction Quotes

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.

Music stops you from thinking.

I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could write, and each time I got up to get a cup of water, I had to win a game. It was a nightmare.

There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

You can't swallow and think about your tongue. If you think about your tongue, you've got a giant piece of meat in your mouth and that's a terrible feeling.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.