Distraction Quotes

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

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 extent of living single thought by single thought.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

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 profit to the soul.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in the day, the better, before the parade of distractions starts.