The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.” — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them… — Jessica Ennis Copy Share Image
Brain-dead from boredom. I'm led to distraction. Scratching the surface of life. Nothing really happens. — Gotye Copy Share Image
“People who are great observers and see more of the world, also have a tendency to need a distraction from it. Knowing… — Sarah Noffke Copy Share Image
“This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
“Just as the sun is forever pursued by shadows, so too is our purpose chased by an unending flurry of distractions. They… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
“And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state… — Irvin Yalom Copy Share Image
some of my happiest funniest times have been spent in offices. Perhaps because the work was mudane, even the tiniest of distractions… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer? — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Creative minds are highly susceptible to distraction, and our newfound connectivity poses a powerful temptation for all of us to drift off… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“... the best fucking distraction of all is having someone who will hold me whenever I'm fucking lost and defeated.” — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional. — Cheng Yen Copy Share Image
“Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
“Imagining your ideal life success story is LESS about WHAT you want to do and MORE about WHO you want to become.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is… — Plautus Copy Share Image
I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction. — Paul Lambert Copy Share Image
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Meaningless distraction drains you of the energy you should be placing into more serious things or using to simply enjoy the rewards… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt… — Margaret Landon 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
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? — Chris Abani 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
