Distracting Quotes
96 quotes by 93 authors
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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
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The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you.
— Jeff Lowe
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ÂDo back exercises. Pain is distracting.
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
— John Keats
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As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
— A. Edward Newton
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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
— Marilu Henner
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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
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Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
— Michel Faber
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When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Who Wrote These Distracting Quotes
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