“Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.” — Mani S. Sivasubramanian Copy Share Image
I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction. — George Stroumboulopoulos Copy Share Image
“On s'en va parce qu'on a besoin de distraction et l'on revient parce qu'on a besoin de bonheur.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I explained to my teammates I didn't want any distractions to the team. — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction? — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day… — Sally Pearson Copy Share Image
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
“1) The pain was a welcome distraction from the turbulence churning inside me. I was just happy to be thinking of something… — Kirsty Moseley Copy Share Image
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off… — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things… — Paul Johnson 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
I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and… — Joe Kraus Copy Share Image
Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is… — Mooji Copy Share Image
I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun.… — Halsey Copy Share Image
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which… — William H. Shannon Copy Share Image
“Open offices, for example, might create more opportunities for collaboration,* but they do so at the cost of “massive distraction,” to quote… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
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