Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back… — Duane Elgin 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
“What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
There isn't but this is, in some ways, perhaps, a useful distraction from other things, giving [Donald Trump] more space to make… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
“Welcome the distraction with a “Hello, restless mind” or “Hello, soreness,” and explore the present-moment experience. Chances are excellent that paying attention… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
“In trying times, such as the ones we currently find ourselves mired in the middle of, one wants a distraction from one’s… — Jill Conner Browne Copy Share Image
“Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. It’s a means… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought.… — Jamling Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill;… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
“I'm not going to be a distraction for you, or allow you to be one for me." "A distraction?" He folded his… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which,… — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image