One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
California has more distractions, more activities for the kids, more driving. — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.” — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us, — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
“I got in and started the engine, also turning on the radio. When the music began I wished that there might be… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
“Don't allow distractions and temptations misguide you & satisfy you for a brief moment. Be strong & stay focused.” — Genereux Philip Copy Share Image
I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The caliber of play in professional football compared to college is better and everybody knows it. They don't realize how much better.… — Marv Levy Copy Share Image
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“done, we will never work. There will always be one more amazing distraction. Our minds will do anything to avoid the challenge… — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car.… — Gary Shapiro Copy Share Image
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy.… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, The process that turns a female from an attraction into a distraction; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward. — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
“strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction.” — Mark Williams Copy Share Image
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster. — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
