Best 268 quotes in «distraction quotes» category

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

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.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

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

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

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

I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

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

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

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

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

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

Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted.

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

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?

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

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

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

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

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

True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

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

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.