Top 376 Distract Quotes & Sayings

Coming off the field and having a young family, it's very easy to distract yourself.

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.

Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

The season is long. When I'm off, I try to distract myself from hockey.

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

Nothing can distract me.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

I don't distract myself from work stuff with funny emails and surfing the internet when I'm at work; I don't distract myself from my family when I'm with them.

You can be whoever you want to be. Don't let those voices or noises, whether they're inside or outside, distract you.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Rectify is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

I don't really do anything unless it's from the heart - I don't like to joke on people, or distract them from something they love.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

I swear you’re a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don’t want to distract you while you’re attempting to drive and I’m dependent on you for my life. (Sway)

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.

Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the present. All desires distract you from the present, all desires distract you from life, all desires are destructive of life, all desires are postponements of life. Life is now and the desire takes you away, farther and farther away from now. And when we see that our life is misery we go on throwing the responsibility on others, and nobody is responsible except us.

The more you can distract yourself, the better.

I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.

You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.

I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.