Distraction Quotes · Page 4

Now I will have less distraction.

— Leonhard Euler

“Employment leaves you distracted”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Reading is a distraction from comprehension.”

— Eric Bentsen

A gladiator's first distraction is his last.

— Oenomaus

The Internet is a big distraction.

— Ray Bradbury

“In nature, every distraction is an inspiration.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“reading of many books is distraction.”

— Seneca

“Distraction is creativity's biggest enemy.”

— Mohammad Hani Farran

I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.

— Akiane Kramarik

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

— Thomas Merton

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

— Robin Sharma

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

— Michael Dolan

“The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.”

— Gregory Maguire

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

— Robin Sharma

“These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.”

— Kristen Lamb

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

— Mark Zuckerberg

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives…

— Rob Payne

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run…

— Malcolm Mclaren

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

— Mary Lou Retton

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

— Tenzin Palmo

I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not…

— Viggo Mortensen

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

— Edna O'Brien

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be…

— Mary Ruefle

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

“We are surrounded by miracles too common to notice. Think of the intricate patterns on a butterfly’s wing... or the way a…

— Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall…

— Pico Iyer

“Distraction, rather than being occasional and derivative, becomes perpetual and primary. Rather than being a diversion from the main thing you do,…

— Andrew S. Miller

They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness.…

— Yasmin Mogahed

I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of…

— Lauren Oliver

I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to…

— Chris Hoy

You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction,…

— Kim Severson

An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture,…

— Ken Wyatt

There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like…

— John Peel

“In the grand scheme of things, we share a mutual goal, but I'm not a distraction." He couldn't help laughing, probably loudly…

— Ophelia London

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not…

— Penelope Lively

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough…

— Alan Bishop

It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when…

— Leo Tolstoy

I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my…

— Richelle Mead

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