Top 547 Distraction Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.
I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.
If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.
I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.
I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.
Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
I like to shower for a really long time; that's a distraction-free zone for me.
I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
Voters tend to reject overreach and distraction - women in particular.
At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.
White ball cricket can be taxing on bowlers and can be a distraction for a youngster, too.
You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
I want to focus on my training and leave no room for distraction. So, reality-tv shows are a no-no.
Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
It's difficult when you have a new baby but, at the same time, a nice distraction.
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)
Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
