Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract…

“That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented in your…

— Aldous Huxley

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

— Anonymous

“Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked…

— Mark Slouka

“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for…

— G.K. Chesterton

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The…

— Stafford Cripps

“Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.”

— Tim Fargo

A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything else involves…

— Dale Jamieson

“Shanta shook her head emphatically, "That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something…

— Aldous Huxley

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic…

— Celia Green

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight…

— James Harvey Robinson

“I don't think that the things are easy to understand, but such a way I get the courage to figure out the most difficult…

— Ehsan Sehgal

I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and…

— Barton Gellman

When I signed, I wasn't considered a highly touted prospect.

— Ronald Acuna Jr