Distraction Quotes

446 Distraction quotes by 390 unique authors

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would… — Chuck Palahniuk
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. — Manuel Puig
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating.… — Paul Ryan
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. — Marilyn vos Savant
This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all,… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. — Bruce Sterling
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of… — Clarence Thomas
I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no… — Josh Turner
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. — Shania Twain
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need… — Rufus Wainwright
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. — Scott Weiland
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. — Cornel West
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline...… — Vivienne Westwood
Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but… — Ravi Zacharias
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction. — Bill Watterson
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words… — Theodore Dreiser
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction. — Thomas A. Edison
There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in… — Caroline Knapp
If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to… — David Deida
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire. — Unknown Author
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old… — Chuck Palahniuk
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. — Lewis Carroll
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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