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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Many of us find it difficult to concentrate at length without succumbing to distractions. Sometimes we even yearn for distraction, anything will do. Changes within our visual field are particularly difficult to resist. We’re lured by looks and thereby sidetracked from the matter at hand.
I got sight tracked by my own desire to relax and dive into the ocean!
Claiming they were sight tracked by the teaching of Maeliau from the main stream doctrine of SSEC.
Independence did not resolve the long-standing land and agrarian questions, as self-serving leaders became sight-tracked by the trappings of …
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Out of cite, out of mind.
(Which does occur; mostly as a pun, but often a pun that is seriously meant, e.g. saying do not (or you are crazy if you do) claim X to be true unless you have a real citation of credible evidence, not just somebody’s opinion, to back it up; or saying if nobody cites you, you might as well be invisible (out of sight) for all the awareness the world will have of you.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2023-06-17 08:22:50)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Out of cite, out of mind.
I like it. It brings to mind Rumsfeld on knowledge, which I also liked, who failed to mention all the unknown knowns which we could cite if only we knew them.
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