Distraction Quotes · Page 7

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

— Stefan Molyneux

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

— Katie Kitamura

Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope.

— Anonymous

“Those eyes were compelling to the point of distraction.”

— Pippa DaCosta

“Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.”

— Thomas à Kempis

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

— Chuck Todd

“You cannot master something whose doing is not the foundation of your lifestyle.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

— Saul Bellow

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off…

— Pete Sampras

Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To…

— Kathy Reichs

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey…

— Tenzin Palmo

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

— Raymond Carver

“1) The pain was a welcome distraction from the turbulence churning inside me. I was just happy to be thinking of something…

— Kirsty Moseley

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of…

— Thomas a Kempis

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

— Derek Jeter

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition…

— Phil McGraw

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall…

— Pico Iyer

“Distraction, rather than being occasional and derivative, becomes perpetual and primary. Rather than being a diversion from the main thing you do,…

— Andrew S. Miller

I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to…

— Chris Hoy

They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness.…

— Yasmin Mogahed

I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of…

— Lauren Oliver

The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our…

— Michael Huffington

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

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident…

— Thomas de Quincey

The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things,…

— Tom Vanderbilt

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of…

— John Berendt

I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we…

— How to Dress Well

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I…

— Haruki Murakami

The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued…

— Peggy Noonan

The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over…

— Toni Morrison

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall…

— B. C. Forbes

[James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said 'What do you folks think.' It's a little bit of…

— William Weld

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

— Sarah Palin

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

— Denis Waitley

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

— Heath Ledger

“Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.”

— Jim George

“Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in our day.”

— Richard J. Foster

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

— Rebecca Pidgeon

“In a world filled with distraction, attention is our competitive advantage.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“In a world of distraction, single-tasking is a superpower.”

— Timothy Ferriss