quotes about Distraction
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If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.
-- Abbi Glines -
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
-- Alan Cohen -
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
-- Aldous Huxley -
When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
-- Anne Katherine -
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The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
-- Aristotle -
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
-- Bill Keller -
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.
-- Billy Collins -
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
-- Blaise PascalSource : "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".
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The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
-- Bruce Sterling -
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
-- C. S. Lewis -
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
-- C. Wright Mills -
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
-- Clay Shirky -
Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
-- Dan Millman -
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
-- Daniel Goleman -
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When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.
-- David Levithan -
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
-- Denis Waitley -
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
-- Derek Jeter -
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I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
-- Derek Jeter -
Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
-- Dogen -
Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.
-- Donald Byrd -
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
-- Dylan McDermott -
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
-- E. B. White -
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
-- George PlimptonSource : George Plimpton (1967). “Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews”
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I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.
-- Gunnar Nelson -
I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
-- Heath Ledger -
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I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...
-- Hedi Slimane -
the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
-- Helen McCloy -
It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.
-- Hilary DuffSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.
-- Hugh Howey -
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Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.
-- James Victore -
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
-- John FletcherSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, James Shirley (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Laws of candy. False one. Little French lawyer. Tragedy of Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas”, p.416
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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
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All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
-- Julio Cortazar -
I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.
-- Keke Palmer -
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
-- Kit Williams -
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Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.
-- LeCrae -
Now I will have less distraction.
-- Leonhard EulerSource : Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles (1969)
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I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
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It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
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Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
-- Malcolm BradburySource : Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
-- Marc Almond -
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
-- Marilyn vos Savant -
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
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I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
-- Mark Zuckerberg -
[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.
-- Mary RuefleSource : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books
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Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.
-- Merlin Mann -
I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
-- Nik Wallenda -
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In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
-- Pico Iyer -
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
-- Ramana Maharshi -
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
-- Raymond Carver -
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An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.
-- Robin Sharma -
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.
-- Sarada Devi -
Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
-- Saul Bellow -
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
-- Scott Weiland -
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Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
-- Suzanne Collins -
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
-- Talib Kweli -
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
-- Terence WinterSource : Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.
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It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
-- Tillie OlsenSource : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.
-- Tom Kite -
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There are always distractions, if you allow them.
-- Tony La Russa -
The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.
-- Warren Buffett -
Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
-- William Stafford -
Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.
-- Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
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I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.
-- Chris MarsSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you - stay focused
-- Darren HardySource : FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jan 20, 2015
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I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.
-- Ed MacFarlaneSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.
-- Max Tundra -
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As liberals are puppets in Donald Trump's show right now, all he needs to do is create any distraction and all of a sudden, the whole country is completely distracted, including the American left. We need to be laser focused on figuring out what are our values, what do we really want to be defending on the left, and how are we going to do that, coming up with the plan and moving forward.
-- Sam Rasoul -
Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?
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My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.
-- Andrew FlintoffSource : Source: www.theguardian.com
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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
-- Sharon SalzbergSource : Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.43, Workman Publishing
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You ever go to a restaurant and watch how many families and couples actually talk? No one talks anymore, everybody is in their cellphone, its a distraction.
-- Timothy BradleySource : Source: thesource.com