Top 378 Distractions Quotes & Sayings

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

Distractions, for me, are a good thing, not a negative.

Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

We're surrounded by distractions. Whether it's emails, phone calls, text messages, social media notifications, or people entering and leaving your workspace, those distractions end up eating a good portion of your time.

I explained to my teammates I didn't want any distractions to the team.

Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the distractions of the mind. And the miracle is that the mind consists only of distraction, so once you are free of all distractions there is no mind left. In the present there is no mind. In the present there is only consciousness, awareness, watchfulness.

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

For the most part, teams don't want distractions.

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

Organized hatred needs a single target to serve political mobilization, so no distractions can be allowed.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

When I'm driving, the fewer distractions there are, the better it is to focus on the job in hand.

I think it's good for people sometimes to get out of their own environments - there are less distractions.

Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet time giving it back. Distractions lure us in with an easy escape and then trick us by stealing our attention.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

I'm happiest when I'm with my daughter and I don't have any distractions with my phone going off.

There's a lot of distractions in New York.

There are too many distractions on a computer.

I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.

Let's face it: Most teams don't like distractions.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Growing up in Baltimore, there were a lot of distractions. But I was so into boxing, it was like candy to me.

Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

Last time I failed is when I fell in love with distractions.

I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

I will have no distractions in my administration because we focused on doing what's best for the people of the state.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals - especially at the extreme levels!