Top 547 Distraction Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.
While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
You ever go to a restaurant and watch how many families and couples actually talk? No one talks anymore, everybody is in their cellphone, its a distraction.
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.
An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.
[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.
I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.
I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.
Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him.
This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction.
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
True fortitude is seen in great exploits
That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides;
And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.
Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.
I think a lot of the national Democrats believe that, you know, Iraq is a distraction and not part of the War on Terror. They've said so. And I strongly disagree.
Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.
To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.
If I'm not emotionally stable, should I put myself in a relationship? Because wouldn't that mean that I'm just using it as a distraction from my problems?
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist. As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.
