We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize… — Jack White Copy Share Image
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction; — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayall the shifts in the business, all the drama, all… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things… — Nate Saint Copy Share Image
People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what… — David Allen Copy Share Image
Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image