In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought.… — Jamling Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill;… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In a...media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it.… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“It seems odd that during much of our lives, most of the time, we seek distraction. Any sort of distraction seems to… — Meletios Webber Copy Share Image
“We mustn't let Silicon Valley off the hook, but we should be honest: much of the time, we give in to distraction… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
This is not a problem. I’m making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I’m going to shoot. One… — Ernests Gulbis Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento,… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there,… — Jeet Banerjee Copy Share Image
It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It's interesting how you can blur the line between acting and living and learn from your performances. I'm just trying to keep… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och,… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
We have lots of challenges around the world, and I have no doubt the intelligence community will continue to watch them, monitor… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
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