But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you're troubled and hurt, you pour yourself into things that can't hurt back.” — Gentleman's Agreement Copy Share Image
I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play. — Danny Aiello Copy Share Image
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations. — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the… — The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Copy Share Image
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is… — Candy Chang Copy Share Image
Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The more we take refuge in distraction, the more habituated we become to mere stimulation and the more desensitized to delight. We… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
“Distraction: The Productivity Killer Why you are distracted isn’t the issue. The real issue is you are avoiding work that you need… — Liesha Petrovich Copy Share Image
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242) — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“We are addicted to attention, but when it comes to paying attention, we are not accessible.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each” — John Charles Pollock Copy Share Image
Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar Copy Share Image
“Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.” — Ehabib Copy Share Image
