Distraction Quotes

Distraction Quote of the day

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

Now I will have less distraction.

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

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.

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 doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

A gladiator's first distraction is his last.

Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you - stay focused

Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.