“What is it that is so interesting about what's happening everywhere else but where you are?” — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.” — Maulik Doshi Copy Share Image
Just like an idle software, your brain is less efficient after a long break. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“You want to take me on? Do it. I’m going to enjoy this because, honey, I need a distraction from the real… — Tijan Copy Share Image
[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else’s story is about the only distraction that works.” — Inglath Cooper Copy Share Image
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction,… — Kim Severson Copy Share Image
An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture,… — Ken Wyatt Copy Share Image
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things,… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Open offices, for example, might create more opportunities for collaboration,* but they do so at the cost of “massive distraction,” to quote… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“Procrasdemon is fighting hard to feed off of distractions and pleasures.” — Neeraj Agnihotri Copy Share Image
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