Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God. — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's… — Jillian Hervey 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
I hate to say this, but one of the biggest distractions can be friends and family. You want them to be there… — Swin Cash Copy Share Image
I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to… — Roger Ebert 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
Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Women use men's weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It hurt me to be away from him. Some days I went crazy wondering what he was doing. And when I couldn't… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
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