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If we pause, we can begin to see that the land of distraction is a topography of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment.

In this land of distraction, we begin to rely on fragments, snippets, and push-button answers, and that is not a step forward. That is the beginning of a cultural decline.

By choosing surveillance-based attention, we are ushering in an age of mistrust. This is the first collective loss we will suffer by cultivating a culture of distraction.

In an age of virtual, mobile, split-focus distraction, the book is a link both to body and spirit.

…self-controlled students manage their efforts at learning not only by suppressing distractions but by constantly evaluating their own thought and progress.

Without the powers of focus, awareness, and judgment that fuel self-control, we cannot fend off distractions, set goals, manage a complex, changing environment, and ultimately shape the trajectory of our lives.

With splintered focus, we’re cultivating a culture of distraction and detachment.

In cultivating distraction, we cannot perceptively look back or see ahead; we are defeated in the battle to shape our future.

Executive attention is a key to turning back a tide of distraction.

…fueling self-management is yet another way that our attentional skills allow us to live in an astoundingly complex world without falling constant prey to distraction.