the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon. — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector.… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“Silence can bring with it a vacancy that in its turn craves the distraction of the human voice or the obscuring impact… — Juliet Nicolson Copy Share Image
“Can't you see that he's using you to get over his grief? That you're just a distraction? All the other girls know… — Nancy Ohlin Copy Share Image
You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Watching a gorgeous vampire and buff werewolf battle for a girl's love is the perfect distraction from my inability to meet a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna… — David Chase Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little… — David Ulin Copy Share Image
Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique… — Satyananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction. — Amishi Jha Copy Share Image
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay… — OMI Copy Share Image
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Distraction, rather than being occasional and derivative, becomes perpetual and primary. Rather than being a diversion from the main thing you do,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best… — Andrew Bogut Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is… — Plautus Copy Share Image
