Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“once in a cognitive tunnel, we lose our ability to direct our focus. Instead, we latch on to the easiest and most… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
Twitter is 1) An obsession. 2) A distraction. 3) A tracking device. 4) Where drama lives. 5) Everybodys diary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals. — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him. — Antonio Brown Copy Share Image
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What’s a little calming distraction for your girlfriend in the midst of world entertainment domination?” “I’d stop the world from spinning for… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
It's the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it… — Adam Thielen Copy Share Image
But it does take the determination that you're going to put your thoughts upon something that does feel good. And so, here… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
As liberals are puppets in Donald Trump's show right now, all he needs to do is create any distraction and all of… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“So I am your distraction?" "You," He said,his face coming within inches of mine, " Are my only hope.” — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Yes, we had slept together a few times at balls. Quite often, actually. But that was all it had ever been —… — Dari A. Malaunt Copy Share Image
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.” — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here. — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It must be emphasized that hygge entails commitment to the present moment and a readiness to set distractions aside.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
It's never a good sign when many players leave the club or when you have many coaching changes, because it brings a… — Marco Reus Copy Share Image
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't… — George Dzundza Copy Share Image
I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh)… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action.… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches… — Al Gore Copy Share Image