"I don't listen to music when I write……" — Khaled Hosseini

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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… — 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… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to… — Sri Chinmoy
• Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable,… — Anne Baxter
• I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour… — Kim Hunter
• By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young… — Christine O'Donnell
• St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The… — Charles Cumming
• One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly… — Sheryl Crow
• The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges… — Aurora Levins Morales
• For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it… — John Hodgman
• ­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting. — Margaret Atwood

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