Distracting Quotes

96 Distracting quotes by 90 unique authors

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have… — Peter Cundill
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else. — David Allen
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! — Alexander Pope
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot… — Sloane Crosley
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within… — Elizabeth Berg
But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very… — David Cronenberg
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of… — Aristotle
Donâ€™t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and donâ€™t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen. — Saoirse Ronan
Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don't see enough. — Will Graham
If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I… — Julian Sands
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other people… — Jayson Werth
Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in… — Michael Gurian
The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time. — Tao Lin
The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I donâ€™t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever… — Dave Gorman
I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I… — Frank Lampard
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull… — Joyce Tenneson
Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around. — Terry O'Quinn
I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else. — Kate Mara
Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done by directing one's… — John Templeton

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