Youth Distraction Quotes

The fact I'm blind has been a great help to my career. If I'd been sighted I'd have played baseball and got into trouble like all other kids on my block.

We have young men with shoes which light up when they walk and a brain that seems dead when they talk.

Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.

My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

By the age of 14, I had stopped doing homework and stopped studying - as soon as I had any spare time, I was up to the local snooker club. I was fortunate my parents never forced me to stop playing snooker and told me to carry on at school. Nowadays, that probably isn't the best advice. I basically had nothing else to fall back on.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Youngsters getting hooked to IPL is a dangerous sign for Indian cricket.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

Silly girls your heads full of boys

The fractious, know-nothing thirty-year-old is what we got when we let the twelve-year-old drop his books and take up the screen.

I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.

I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.