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
“Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else’s story is about the only distraction that works.” — Inglath Cooper 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
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
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
[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
“You want to take me on? Do it. I’m going to enjoy this because, honey, I need a distraction from the real… — Tijan 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
It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way… — Andrew Morse Copy Share Image
Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in… — Immanuel Kant 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
There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition. — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion a distraction” — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus. — Anuj Copy Share Image
People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives… — Rob Payne Copy Share Image
I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
“SHUN the gossip of men as much as possible, for discussion of worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch… — Thomas à Kempis 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
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Im crashing into cars, Im running into trees, I do these things because your loves affecting me, cant control my reaction, what… — JoJo Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can block out a lot of things because you're thinking about so much and you can distract yourself, but sometimes… — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
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