Best 268 quotes in «distraction quotes» category

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

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.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

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

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.

What one does to kill time is one's true calling.

Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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