Distraction Quote by Michael Finkel

Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.

— Cameron Diaz

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

— Blaise Pascal

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

— Thomas Paine

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the…

— Glen Hansard

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

— Henry David Thoreau

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

— Luc de Clapiers

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

— Anonymous

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

— Tony La Russa

Necessity does everything well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our reality is narrow, confined, and fleeting. Whatever we think is important right now, in our mundane lives, will no longer be important against…

— Liu Cixin

All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to…

— Hope Solo