A Quote by T. Boone Pickens

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

T. Boone Pickens

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Chasing Distracted Elephants Get Hunting Rabbits

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T. Boone Pickens
American - Businessman
Born: May 22, 1928

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

Bobby Knight

There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

Ted Cruz

There's enough sedative in these darts to bring down a werewolf, which is exactly what we're hunting. Why would we want to bring down an elephant if we're not hunting elephants?

Derek Landy

Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

Bertrand Russell

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

Brian Mulroney

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

Rick Riordan

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.

Maria Irene Fornes

My whole career, I've been climbing or chasing or hunting something.

Finn Balor

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Paul Shepard

There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?

Mooji

Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

Bob Barr

A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.

Peter Atkins

If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.

Jim Lampley

Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I feel as though there is nothing we can do for elephants - I feel that the only good I am doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth.