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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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.

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    It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

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    Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

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    [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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    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?

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

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    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.

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

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

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    The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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