What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game. — Toni Morrison 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
Throughout history there have been many men and women who have chosen to imitate Jesus as he withdraws into the desert... To… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground,… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification,… — Lewis Carroll 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
Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction? — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best… — Andrew Bogut Copy Share Image
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us, — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I got into trouble a lot in school. They say you're a disturbance in class. You're a distraction, they're moving you around.… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more. — Laozi Copy Share Image
My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes. — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image