It's never a good sign when many players leave the club or when you have many coaching changes, because it brings a… — Marco Reus Copy Share Image
“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
“It must be emphasized that hygge entails commitment to the present moment and a readiness to set distractions aside.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here. — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
“Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator,… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus,… — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.” — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Yes, we had slept together a few times at balls. Quite often, actually. But that was all it had ever been —… — Dari A. Malaunt Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“So I am your distraction?" "You," He said,his face coming within inches of mine, " Are my only hope.” — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. — Cornel West 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
I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him. — Antonio Brown Copy Share Image
Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals. — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
Twitter is 1) An obsession. 2) A distraction. 3) A tracking device. 4) Where drama lives. 5) Everybodys diary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
“once in a cognitive tunnel, we lose our ability to direct our focus. Instead, we latch on to the easiest and most… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me. — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
Many women in particular fail to see the positive benefits they might gain from engaging in the political process because they find… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
“Can I do anything for you? Bake you cookies? Walk your dogs? Throw snowballs? Just generally be a distraction?” — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present. — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
I don't pay attention to accolades or any of that stuff because I think it can serve as a distraction, so for… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is… — Tom Noonan Copy Share Image
I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions. — Eli Manning Copy Share Image
I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas… — Ed MacFarlane Copy Share Image