Distraction Quotes · Page 10

“Distractions provide us with some relief from thoughts”

— Noah Elkrief

“We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.”

— Geoffrey Wood

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Distraction was a bitch. A painful, bleeding bitch.”

— Kit Rocha

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

— Pico Iyer

“An unplanned day invites both distraction and destruction.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

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

— George Plimpton

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

— John Fletcher

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

— Sarah Cooper

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do…

— Rufus Wainwright

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

— Michael Moore

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

— Brendon Burchard

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids…

— Barry Lyga

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

— Seth Godin

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to…

— Ben Stiller

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and…

— Marilynne Robinson

“The majority of people do dozens, even hundreds, of things right during the day, and a few things wrong. Guess which things…

— Hal Elrod

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we…

— Neil Gaiman

You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All…

— Harrison Ford

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to…

— Sarah Churchwell

The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war…

— Mark McGwire

“In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother…

— Mitch Albom

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

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Witold Gombrowicz

“When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made…

— Alice Jamieson

When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way…

— Andrew Morse

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job,…

— Diane Ackerman

Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office…

— David Rock

“Move along,” Hines said. “Last room down.” I spotted a fish tank halfway down the aisle. Dug into my pocket. “Hi,” I…

— Kathy Reichs

Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.…

— Autumn de Forest

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end…

— Maya Angelou

How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath…

— Stephen Batchelor

Women use men's weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

— Greg Gutfeld

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

— Jane Fonda

“To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

— E. B. White

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

— Tom Kite

[Donald] Trump's pension for distractions is starting to frustrate members of his own party.

— Chuck Todd

My family will never be a distraction, that's for sure.

— Matthew Slater