Best 268 quotes in «distraction quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

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

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

[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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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