I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because… — Guy Picciotto Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Even today, in retirement, I find it very distracting if there is conversation during a run. I work out as much for… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we… — Michael E. Mann Copy Share Image
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean,… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to… — Mike Matarazzo Copy Share Image
“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This social media era is giving us a more in-depth look at our favorite people, and it's all aspects, from music to… — Matt Barnes Copy Share Image
Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If you are only getting two takes and you are on a crazy set where there is a lot of noise and… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
“Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life.… — Joanna Runciman Copy Share Image
“Instead of hiding under the covers, let’s do something about it. Maybe you’re not feeling this way today, but you might tomorrow.… — Liesha Petrovich Copy Share Image
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all… — Mark Lloyd Copy Share Image
It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm… — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships,… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
“we must die to the idea that a distraction-free life is possible—it is not, and it never has been. The holy life… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon… Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
My name was originally Da Baby Jesus, but I changed it like two years into my career because I didn't want to… — DaBaby Copy Share Image
We call on the P.R.C. to remain focused on supporting international efforts to combat the global pandemic and to stop exploiting the… — Morgan Ortagus Copy Share Image
“I was trying to put as much distance between us as possible. In the past, it's been very necessary to keep my… — Sarah Kuhn Copy Share Image
I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions.… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
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