Distraction Quotes · Page 11

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

— Manuel Puig

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— George Plimpton

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

— John Fletcher

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

— Kady Cross

I don't think it's good to be a distraction to your team.

— Dabo Swinney

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

— Carmel Sheridan

“Distractions provide us with some relief from thoughts”

— Noah Elkrief

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

— Tom Kite

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

— Brigitte Bardot

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

— Rajmani Tigunait

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

— Larry Dixon

“The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.”

— Zig Ziglar

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

— Bill Parcells

Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who…

— Ashton Kutcher

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

— Paul Theroux

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

When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look…

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Sallie Tisdale

I don't necessarily think there's a difference in terms of how the film industry and the ad industry view visual effects. If…

— Joshua Rogers

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

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

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Sharon Salzberg

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

The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of…

— Rosemary M. Wixom

“When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits…

— Brother Lawrence

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract…

— Julie Andrews

“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary…

— Anna Kavan

Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.…

— Autumn de Forest

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end…

— Maya Angelou

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

— E. B. White

[Donald] Trump's pension for distractions is starting to frustrate members of his own party.

— Chuck Todd

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

— Kevin Hart

My family will never be a distraction, that's for sure.

— Matthew Slater

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

— Suzanne Collins

Women use men's weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.”

— Dennis R. Miller

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

— Greg Gutfeld