Distraction famous quotes

If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.
-- Abbi Glines

#Attention #Arms #Distraction

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.
-- Alan Cohen

#Believe #Denial #Distraction

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Men #Infinite #Distraction

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

#Life #Unnecessary #Distraction

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
-- Aristotle

#Distraction #States #Factions

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
-- Bill Keller

#Media #Distraction #Social

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.
-- Billy Collins

#Thinking #Path #Distraction

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Misery #Distraction

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
-- Brian D. McLaren

#Distraction #Crosses #Advertisements

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

#Madness #Distraction

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Children #Important #Distraction

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

#Waiting #Distraction #Ends

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

#Way #Entertainment #Distraction

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
-- Clay Shirky

#Hands #Multitasking #Distraction

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
-- Dan Millman

#Distraction

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
-- Daniel Goleman

#Focus #Way #Distraction

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.
-- David Levithan

#Remember #Distraction

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
-- Delmore Schwartz

#Distraction

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

#Listening #Pay #Distraction

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
-- Derek Jeter

#New York #Unnecessary #Distraction

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

#Thinking #Want #Distraction

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
-- Dogen

#Practice #Distraction #Dharma

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

#Distraction #Productive

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.
-- Dylan McDermott

#Compassion #Helping #Distraction

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
-- E. B. White

#Distraction #Creation

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
-- George Plimpton

#Art #Attention #Distraction

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.
-- Gunnar Nelson

#Mma #Jiu Jitsu #Distraction

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
-- Heath Ledger

#Acting #Distraction

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 ...
-- Hedi Slimane

#Emotion #Intimacy #Distraction

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
-- Helen McCloy

#Powerful #Delay #Distraction

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.
-- Hilary Duff

#Want #Stay True To Yourself #Distraction

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

#Goal #Horizon #Distraction

Acclaim is a distraction.
-- James Broughton

#Madness #Distraction #Acclaim

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.
-- James Victore

#Disease #Distraction #Century

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Mind #Gone #Distraction

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

#Perfect #Devil #Distraction

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

#Wickedness #Kind #Distraction

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

#Doors #Profound #Distraction

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

#Acting #Music Love #Distraction

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
-- Kit Williams

#Calling #Distraction #Blindness

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.
-- LeCrae

#Joy #Distraction #Temporary

Now I will have less distraction.
-- Leonhard Euler

#Distraction

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
-- Lincoln Child

#Writing #Distraction #Listening To Music

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Beautiful #Distraction #Wanted

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
-- Malcolm Bradbury

#Distraction #Scholarship

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
-- Marc Almond

#Thinking #Creative #Distraction

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Madness #Distraction #Arise

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.
-- Marilynne Robinson

#Giving #Nonsense #Distraction

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
-- Mark Zuckerberg

#Long #Distraction #Term

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.
-- Mary Ruefle

#Time #Might #Distraction

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.
-- Merlin Mann

#Writing #Excuse #Distraction

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
-- Nik Wallenda

#Distraction #Distracted

A gladiator's first distraction is his last.
-- Oenomaus

#Firsts #Lasts #Distraction

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

#Age #Attention #Distraction

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

#Meditation #Distraction

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
-- Raymond Carver

#Responsibility #Stories #Distraction

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

#Addiction #Creative #Distraction

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.
-- Sarada Devi

#Mind #Inquiry #Distraction

Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
-- Saul Bellow

#Art #Attention #Distraction

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

#Hands #Feelings #Distraction

Hard work's a good distraction.
-- Scott Westerfeld

#Hard Work #Distraction

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
-- Stefan Molyneux

#Evil #Anarchy #Distraction

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Zero #People #Distraction

Distracted from distraction by distraction
-- T. S. Eliot

#Social Media #Distraction #Distracted

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
-- Talib Kweli

#Compassion #Distraction #Religion And Politics

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
-- Terence Winter

#Way #Distraction #Gangsters

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

#Meditation #Toil #Distraction

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

#Distraction

There are always distractions, if you allow them.
-- Tony La Russa

#Distraction

The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.
-- Warren Buffett

#Love You #Distraction #Dangerous

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
-- William Stafford

#Decision #Life Is #Distraction

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.
-- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#War #Moments #Distraction

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.
-- Chris Mars

#Creative #Painting #Distraction

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

#Mojo #Stay Focused #Distraction

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.
-- Ed MacFarlane

#Morning #Thinking #Distraction

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.
-- Max Tundra

#Distraction #Projects #Deadline

As liberals are puppets in Donald Trump's show right now, all he needs to do is create any distraction and all of a sudden, the whole country is completely distracted, including the American left. We need to be laser focused on figuring out what are our values, what do we really want to be defending on the left, and how are we going to do that, coming up with the plan and moving forward.
-- Sam Rasoul

#Country #Moving #Distraction

Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?
-- W. S. Di Piero

#Enthusiasm #Distraction #Staring

My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.
-- Andrew Flintoff

#Important #My Family #Distraction

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
-- Sharon Salzberg

#Energy #Waste #Distraction

You ever go to a restaurant and watch how many families and couples actually talk? No one talks anymore, everybody is in their cellphone, its a distraction.
-- Timothy Bradley

#Couple #Distraction