Distraction Quotes

446 Distraction quotes by 390 unique authors

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions. — LeCrae
When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can… — Thomas Merton
You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing… — Seth Godin
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. — Elwyn Brooks White
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke. — Clay Shirky
It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction. — Plautus
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no… — Thomas a Kempis
Freedom from mental distraction equals power. — Dan Millman
We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure… — Lysa TerKeurst
In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel… — Pico Iyer
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand. — Bill Parcells
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer… — Stephen Batchelor
My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions. — Lisa Ling
I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me. — Keke Palmer
There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you… — Julie Andrews
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. — C.S. Lewis
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
After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season.… — LaVell Edwards
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the… — Mohsin Hamid
In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing… — Carl Honore
Hard work's a good distraction. — Scott Westerfeld
I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement. — Edward Snowden
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction. — Delmore Schwartz
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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