Distraction Quotes · Page 2

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

— Eli Pariser

You need to be distracted.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“She was his distraction. He, her desire.”

— Kizzie Darker

Watching movies is my one distraction.

— Marilyn Manson

“Distraction is the enemy of insight.”

— Bernadette Fiwa

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

— Delmore Schwartz

The abundance of books is distraction

— Seneca the Younger

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

— Katie Kitamura

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

— Stefan Molyneux

I explained to my teammates I didn't want any distractions to the team.

— Derrick Rose

Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope.

— Anonymous

“Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.”

— Thomas à Kempis

“Those eyes were compelling to the point of distraction.”

— Pippa DaCosta

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

— Chuck Todd

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

— Robin Sharma

Creating a distraction is a skill we should all have. Never take for granted your ability to spot something interesting out of…

— Sarah Cooper

Attraction and distraction are the two stumbling blocks that are essentially met en route in lifes journey towards excellence.

— Anuj Somany

“My #writing isn't a hobby; it's not a distraction nor escape from reality, neither is it a waste of time. My writing…

— Diem Burden

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

— Dogen

I think the biggest change in my game is also the biggest distraction in my game. Me constantly trying to slow down…

— Ovince Saint Preux

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

— Tom Hoover

“I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail”

— Rose Pressey

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's…

— Russell Sherman

Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from the running to be the next secretary of state. The thing is, she was never…

— Rush Limbaugh

In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life.…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look…

— Anonymous

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus…

— Witold Gombrowicz

People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in…

— Marilynne Robinson

The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only…

— Gerhard Richter

“I'm perfectly fine with being used. But I would like to know for what I'm being used. Distraction That much I gathered.…

— Kody Keplinger

“A little Internet browsing and a few marginally important e-mails never ruined anyone’s life strategy. But we’re not really talking about a…

— Geoffrey Tumlin

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will…

— Kofi Annan

You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're…

— Derek Landy

The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt…

— J. D. Salinger

“I need a drink. Now.” After tossing—fine, throwing—my purse and keys on the couch, I march straight into the kitchen. No more…

— Lilly Avalon

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public…

— C.S. Lewis

The people who live the life of their dreams know that it's not about how much money they have, but how much…

— Mastin Kipp

I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see…

— Matthea Harvey