Quotes About Diverting Attention

#1. Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

Albert Bandura

#2. When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.

Michael Harris

#3. Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

John Stockwell

#4. Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?

Niall Horan

#5. Diverting one's attention from the past was not the same as envisioning and embarking upon a future. On the other hand, if the past were razed, the slate wiped clean, maybe fewer people would confuse it with the future, and that at least would be something.

Richard Russo

#6. The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

Albert Camus

#7. Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player

Usain Bolt

#8. Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please.

S.L. Wallace

#9. You can become rich by being cheap but the problem is that even though you are rich, you are still cheap

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill