I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little… — David Ulin Copy Share Image
Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna… — David Chase Copy Share Image
Watching a gorgeous vampire and buff werewolf battle for a girl's love is the perfect distraction from my inability to meet a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus,… — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator,… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique… — Satyananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Any little distraction, any little thought that's not focused on where it needs to be I think is just a deadweight. — Jon Fitch Copy Share Image
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it.… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
“Emily wasn’t supposed to be someone I thought about months later. She was supposed to be a fun distraction, like all the… — Monica Alexander Copy Share Image
“Amazing, is it not, that in the face of death we hunger for distraction, and are wont to focus on other things,… — C.S. Friedman Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
I could have become a distraction, pointed fingers, complained, or I could have just worked hard and been prepared, knowing I'm one… — Matt Leinart Copy Share Image
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful Unhelpful Unruly Unkindly Unloving Unambitious Unmotivated or make you feel... Uncomfortable” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently… — Marc Edwards Copy Share Image
The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Executive dysfunction isn’t distraction. It’s your brain’s defense mechanism kicking in to protect itself from overwhelm.” — Felecia Etienne Copy Share Image
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a… — Dave East Copy Share Image
Facebook is 1) An obsession. 2) A distraction. 3) A tracking device. 4) Where drama lives. 5) Everybodys diary — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Distraction is morphine for the mind. Distraction is used to cut off your awareness to a problem at the expense of cutting… — Derek Doepker Copy Share Image
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
