Top 376 Distract Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
Explore popular Distract quotes.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.
To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.
The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.
But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.
You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.
I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.
There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.
Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.
[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.
In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.
All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.
I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.
I want to act in films and TV drama, so that's where I'm aiming to be, and I'm not going to let anything distract me or turn my head until I get there.
Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.
Someone - a man - advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.
That's my approach to makeup in general, highlight something, what you love about yourself, but don't cover anything up, or distract from what you actually look like.
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)
Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.
I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal.
A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.
I keep my eyes and heart bent toward Jesus, therefore no human response can distract me from the Kingdom agenda.
I like to watch actors while they are acting, how they hold their attention when so many people around are there to distract them. It's difficult.
I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it for six months, and my job was to distract the auditors with jokes.
Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.
At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk.
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can win a vision of My Reality.
I pray to be the best thing ever but I also pray that for my colleagues. You're only as good as the person who can distract from what's meant to be happening.
I've certainly done more than my fair share of pouncing on a stupid issue to win the news cycle of the day, to distract from what are real and important issues.
I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.
We need autocracies and failing democracies alike to understand that they cannot scapegoat LGBT citizens to distract from their own shortcomings.
There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks].
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
