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“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.”

Ifs Certain Wish Answers Attention Focus Hair Amount Feminist Appearance Distraction Eyebrows Sisterhood

Author:Louise Mensch

“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Ifs Hard Reading Opportunity Pleasure Attention Our Lives Land Quiet Conversation Intimate Restaurants Distraction Noisy Land Of Opportunity Pleasure Of Reading Intimate Conversation

Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.”

“I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No. What it did mean was that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking to recognize anything as awe-inspiring. . . . I hadn't been paying attention to the beauty around me.”

Mind Mean Facts Attention Caught Pay Attention Awe Distraction Caught Up Awe Inspiring Awesome Things

Book:The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”

May Has Beens Attention One Thing Late Oneself Distraction Capitalist Repetition Favour

Author:Jan Peacock

“Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

Art Attention Midst Distraction

Book:Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews

Source: Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews

“[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.”

Way Feels Pay Attention Habit Comfort Drug Pay Attention Smoking Occupation Distraction Casual

Author:Margaret Cho

“Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.”

Self Attention Constant Digital Distraction Self Control Shrinks Cognitive Overload

Author:Daniel Goleman