Best 268 quotes in «distraction quotes» category

But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.

Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you - stay focused

California has more distractions, more activities for the kids, more driving.

[Donald] Trump`s pension for distractions is starting to frustrate members of his own party.

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.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.

Even when there's pressure and distractions and expectations from others or myself, it's a good thing. It just makes me a better person. It makes me stronger.

Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

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

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

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.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.

I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in the day, the better, before the parade of distractions starts.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

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

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.

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.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

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