Distraction Quotes · Page 16

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would…

— Ramakrishna

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

— Toni Morrison

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

— Susan Sontag

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable”

— Germany Kent

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without…

— Jasper Fforde

“Distraction is morphine for the mind.  Distraction is used to cut off your awareness to a problem at the expense of cutting…

— Derek Doepker

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he…

— Margaret Fuller

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…

— Thomas Adams

“For some reason, her features soften at that. “You don’t spend much time around women, do you?” I shrug. “They are around…

— Jessa Kane

Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course,…

— Claire Messud

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that…

— Simon Mainwaring

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions…

— Woody Allen

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever…

— Harlan Coben

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

If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but…

— Hugh Black

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says…

— James Tiptree Jr

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

— Ray Bradbury

Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave…

— Shawn Johnson

Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a…

— Dave East

“Executive dysfunction isn’t distraction. It’s your brain’s defense mechanism kicking in to protect itself from overwhelm.”

— Felecia Etienne

Facebook is 1) An obsession. 2) A distraction. 3) A tracking device. 4) Where drama lives. 5) Everybodys diary

— Anonymous

“Amazing, is it not, that in the face of death we hunger for distraction, and are wont to focus on other things,…

— C.S. Friedman

Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a…

— Lewis Howes

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

— Robert Breault

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it.…

— Stan Getz

“Emily wasn’t supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the…

— Monica Alexander

Any little distraction, any little thought that's not focused on where it needs to be I think is just a deadweight.

— Jon Fitch

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from…

— Brendon Burchard

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

— Rick Warren

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises…

— Nhat Hanh

Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

— Mindy Kaling

“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I could have become a distraction, pointed fingers, complained, or I could have just worked hard and been prepared, knowing I'm one…

— Matt Leinart

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't…

— George Dzundza

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

— Fred Rogers

As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's…

— Howard Rheingold

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management…

— Bill Vaughan