Distraction Quotes · Page 9

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

— Channing Tatum

MARRIAGE, The process that turns a female from an attraction into a distraction;

— Nikhil Saluja

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,

— Douglas Rushkoff

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

— Aldous Huxley

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

— Clay Shirky

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

— Terence Winter

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— Saul Bellow

“strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction.”

— Mark Williams

There’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a…

— Tim Gunn

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition…

— Phil McGraw

“I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's…

— David Levithan

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

— Billy Collins

“My #writing isn't a hobby; it's not a distraction nor escape from reality, neither is it a waste of time. My writing…

— Diem Burden

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

— Dogen

Attraction and distraction are the two stumbling blocks that are essentially met en route in lifes journey towards excellence.

— Anuj Somany

It is important that I primarily focus on serving the constituents of New York's Third Congressional District and providing federal level representation…

— George Santos

Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry…

— Andrew Skurka

By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of…

— Sallie Tisdale

Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But…

— Henri Nouwen

“A little Internet browsing and a few marginally important e-mails never ruined anyone’s life strategy. But we’re not really talking about a…

— Geoffrey Tumlin

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Are you going to distract me by playing footsie?" "Absolutely, princess," he says with a wink. "Then I won't remember a thing."…

— Tera Lynn Childs

The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only…

— Gerhard Richter

“I'm perfectly fine with being used. But I would like to know for what I'm being used. Distraction That much I gathered.…

— Kody Keplinger

I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after…

— Robert Klein

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work…

— Jacques Ellul

“Well, hell yeah! I’m gonna kick your ass, too!” I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time you’re not. I have…

— Jamie McGuire

“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in…

— Immanuel Kant

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it…

— Kelly Link

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;…

— H. L. Mencken

True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz…

— Julia Hill

We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never…

— Fernando Pessoa

California has more distractions, more activities for the kids, more driving.

— Laird Hamilton

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

— Shania Twain

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

— John C. Bogle

“If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.”

— Kevin Dutton

“The primary causes of errors in nursing are distraction and stress.”

— Carmel Sheridan

“You're not a distraction, you're a bloody obsession.”

— Kady Cross