Distracting Quotes

96 quotes by 93 authors

Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would… — Odette Annable
The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you. — Jeff Lowe
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet;… — Sri Chinmoy
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit… — Anne Baxter
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way,… — Kim Hunter
By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other… — Christine O'Donnell
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a… — Charles Cumming
One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never… — Sheryl Crow
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of… — Aurora Levins Morales
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious… — John Hodgman
ÂDo back exercises. Pain is distracting. — Margaret Atwood
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch.… — Eric Hoffer
It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be… — Elisabeth Elliot
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! — John Keats
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books. — A. Edward Newton
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. — Marilu Henner
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries… — Elon Musk
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty. — Michel Faber
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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