Top 547 Distraction Quotes & Sayings

Sport instils discipline, and it's a distraction.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

Now I will have less distraction.

A puppy is the ultimate distraction.

The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

A gladiator's first distraction is his last.

Love, you drive me to distraction.

Omarosa is a distraction. She's always been a distraction. She's never been a positive influence on anything to do with Donald Trump.

Hard work's a good distraction.

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

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Acclaim is a distraction.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.

When you don't have a support system, and you're constantly being bullied for who you are, and you begin to not accept yourself for who you are, it's a distraction from schoolwork. It's a distraction from learning and from growing.

Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call.

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.

I mean, movies need distraction.

Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It is a state of non-doing. You simply relax and you enjoy the feeling of relaxation. Relax into yourself, just close your eyes, and listen to all that is happening all around. No need to feel anything as distraction. The moment you feel it is a distraction, you are denying God. This moment God has come to you as a bird. Don't deny.

While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.

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

The abundance of books is distraction

Las Vegas is about distraction.

I don't think it's good to be a distraction to your team.

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

The transfer deadline can be a distraction if you allow it to be.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

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

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

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

They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

Working is a great distraction technique.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

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

The Internet is a big distraction.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.