Distractibility Quotes

#1. ADD is a neurological syndrome whose classic defining triad of symptoms include impulsivity, distractibility, and hyperactivity or excess energy.

Edward M. Hallowell

#2. The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating "hyperpalatable" foods by manipulating levels of sugar, fat, and salt.11 Distractibility might be regarded as the mental equivalent of obesity.

Matthew B. Crawford

#3. A heightened distractibility and a persistent feeling of being rushed or in a hurry, even when there's no need to be, combined with a mounting feeling of how superficial your life has become: lots to do, but no depth of thought or feeling.

Edward M. Hallowell

#4. That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must have also the untaught strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I never live alone,
I never walk alone.
My posse's always ready
And they're waitin' in my zone.

Chuck D

#6. It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E. M. Forster

#7. When you are up to your neck in shit, all you can do is sing.

Samuel Beckett

#8. Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#9. Later, they also found a camp of outlaws who, when offered the chance to join the rebel ranks, unsheathed their daggers and threatened to cut the three into tiny, bloody pieces and eat them for dinner.
They too that as a firm no.

Morgan Rhodes

#10. The heart never feels remorse for falling in love.

B.L. Berry

#11. Beneath the people we think we are, there are funnier, happier, livelier people that we keep ignoring.

Rebecca Murphy

#12. for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he ... all pleasures available freely (but what we attain with no effort we cannot value),

Neil Gaiman

#13. Getting sliced up by a Jimmy Choo knockoff hadn't exactly been my finest moment as Cadogan Sentinel.

Chloe Neill

#14. I'm very shy in a crowd.

Patti LaBelle

#15. Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

Andrea Hirata