Best 268 quotes in «distraction quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

[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!

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but 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 majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

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

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

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

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

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.

We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.

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

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

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

We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

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

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on it. So I sat on the road with the sketches and saw how they revealed themselves emotionally.

Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

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

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

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

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

Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

After giving it some thought, I've decided to name my monkey mind Ricky Bobby. I was thinking about Latin names like Javier, but I don't want to make my jumping, distractable self sound mysterious and sexy. Ricky Bobby makes me laugh. A name like that seems silly, not strong. Just a goofy little thing that doesn't know what to do with its hands, likes to go fast, and loves tiny, infant, baby Jesus.

... answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.

A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary for him to discover some element of pleasure, no matter how humble or on how low a level, in his environment if he is to go on living at all. In my case these insignificant birds with their subdued colourings have provided just sufficient distraction to keep me from total despair. Each day I find myself spending longer and longer at the window watching their flights, their quarrels, their mouse-quick flutterings, their miniature feuds and alliances. Curiously enough, it is only when I am standing in front of the window that I feel any sense of security. While I am watching the birds I believe that I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.

Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.

A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.

Are you going to distract me by playing footsie?" "Absolutely, princess," he says with a wink. "Then I won't remember a thing." "It's a samurai training technique," he teases, spinning the test prep book toward him. "I distract you as much as possible right now." He slides the book into his lap. "And you'll learn how to test through anything.

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.