If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention.… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The first thing I'd say is stop paying such attention to Trump's tweets. They're a total distraction. I think we should instead… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the… — Tenzin Palmo 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
