I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242) — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each” — John Charles Pollock Copy Share Image
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you're troubled and hurt, you pour yourself into things that can't hurt back.” — Gentleman's Agreement Copy Share Image
I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play. — Danny Aiello Copy Share Image
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger. — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
“The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for… — Chris Mars Copy Share Image
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like anyone who follows politics, I am sometimes mesmerized by the twisted and relentless drama playing out in Washington. But I also… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Distraction: The Productivity Killer Why you are distracted isn’t the issue. The real issue is you are avoiding work that you need… — Liesha Petrovich Copy Share Image
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I always hear people say I give the same answers or I don’t give you much. No, I just don’t give you… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“That’s not procrastination—that’s your brain protecting itself from overload.” — Felecia Etienne Copy Share Image
“Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.” — Ehabib Copy Share Image
Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used as a distraction. Wave it to the right, while you loot to the left. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
