Distraction Quotes · Page 18

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't…

— George Dzundza

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

— Fred Rogers

As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's…

— Howard Rheingold

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and…

— Glen Hansard

“Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.”

— Meg Jay

“Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it.…

— Stan Getz

“Emily wasn’t supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the…

— Monica Alexander

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane.…

— Dave Barry

“Spending time, here in Eufaula, has helped me realize that barreling through life at a breakneck pace -- while exciting, sometimes glamorous,…

— Lauren Clark

Here's what we [Americans] need: a 30 second you tube video of some guy at a party constantly checking out everyone else…

— Lawrence Lessig

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the…

— Vivienne Westwood

“Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the…

— Anonymous

I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I…

— Patsy Kensit

Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean…

— Richard Maurice Bucke

This industry's so full of distractions: partying, drinking, sex, money. The priority for me is just to make music that people can…

— Tinashe

Any little distraction, any little thought that's not focused on where it needs to be I think is just a deadweight.

— Jon Fitch

Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a…

— Lewis Howes

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

— Robert Breault

“Amazing, is it not, that in the face of death we hunger for distraction, and are wont to focus on other things,…

— C.S. Friedman

I could have become a distraction, pointed fingers, complained, or I could have just worked hard and been prepared, knowing I'm one…

— Matt Leinart

Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

— Mindy Kaling

“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

— Rick Warren

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from…

— Brendon Burchard

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises…

— Nhat Hanh

“Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable”

— Germany Kent

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

— Barbara Tuchman

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently…

— Marc Edwards

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

— Susan Sontag

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

— Toni Morrison

Facebook is 1) An obsession. 2) A distraction. 3) A tracking device. 4) Where drama lives. 5) Everybodys diary

— Anonymous

Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a…

— Dave East

“Executive dysfunction isn’t distraction. It’s your brain’s defense mechanism kicking in to protect itself from overwhelm.”

— Felecia Etienne

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says…

— James Tiptree Jr

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

— Ray Bradbury

Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave…

— Shawn Johnson

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without…

— Jasper Fforde

“Distraction is morphine for the mind.  Distraction is used to cut off your awareness to a problem at the expense of cutting…

— Derek Doepker