Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Opportunity knocks but some people are too busy watching TV.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life. — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
White ball cricket can be taxing on bowlers and can be a distraction for a youngster, too. — Gautam Gambhir Copy Share Image
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“We forget about death. We are too busy with our distraction. And when it hits, it hits hard.” — Raditya Dika Copy Share Image
Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you -… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
“Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“When we pollute the moment with excessive distraction and stimulation, it affects our ability to slow time, to record memories, and to… — David Romanelli Copy Share Image
Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I'm just working without distraction. It's just the… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function. — Claude Lelouch 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
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
“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
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
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
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You're bored, aren't you.' 'I need constant distraction. Shall we go?' 'Uh, aren't you supposed to delegate responsibility or something? If you're… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
