Married to Distraction Quotes

“insist on time with the person you love and make extended time for one another. learn to say no to desirable offers. get wise to the tricks of the multitude of thieves of your time and attention that swarm around you like gnats every second. have a clear vision of the life you want. You have to know what matters most to you, and you have to make time for that, with iron-fisted determination. Here is a hard and fast Law of Modern Life: if you do not take your time, it will be taken from you. If you do not insist on making time for what matters, you will not do what matters. If”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption

“Without knowing it or meaning to, we are training ourselves to be constantly on the alert for interruptions; to seek out messages incessantly, to process data rather than discover, invent, think, or feel, and in general to lose the propensity or even the capacity to ponder, pause, imagine, or give full focus to anyone or anything for more than a few restive moments.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption

“never before has it been so easy to stay in touch with so many people electronically, but rarely has it seemed so difficult to maintain genuine human closeness.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Married to Distraction: Restoring Intimacy and Strengthening Your Marriage in an Age of Interruption