Distraction Quotes · Page 7

“We were made to be distracted by life, by story.”

— Donald Miller

“Your addiction to daily distraction denies you of effectiveness”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

“We are here to love. Everything else is distraction.”

— Scott Stabile

“We are distracted from distractions by distractions.”

— Jeffrey A. Barnes

“Opportunity knocks but some people are too busy watching TV.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— Saul Bellow

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

— Sebastian Thrun

The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

— Anuj

“He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion a distraction”

— Jennifer DeLucy

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives…

— Rob Payne

“SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch…

— Thomas à Kempis

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity…

— Hedi Slimane

I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not…

— Viggo Mortensen

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

— Tenzin Palmo

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

— Mary Lou Retton

Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet…

— Tara Stiles

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the…

— Twyla Tharp

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of…

— Sue Townsend

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother…

— Bonnie Raitt

There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is…

— Mooji

“Distraction, rather than being occasional and derivative, becomes perpetual and primary. Rather than being a diversion from the main thing you do,…

— Andrew S. Miller

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall…

— Pico Iyer

“We are surrounded by miracles too common to notice. Think of the intricate patterns on a butterfly’s wing... or the way a…

— Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World

This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and…

— Thomas Ligotti

Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In…

— Ravi Ravindra

“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which…

— William H. Shannon

What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing…

— Joseph Sobran

I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my…

— Richelle Mead

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when…

— Leo Tolstoy

Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress,…

— Janet Mock

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

— Channing Tatum

“Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.”

— Sarah Blake

“Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.”

— David Brainard

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

— Bill Keller

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

— LeCrae

I want to focus on my training and leave no room for distraction. So, reality-tv shows are a no-no.

— Geeta Phogat

I admire your use of the Food Network as a distraction from your eating disorder.

— Anonymous