Best 70 quotes in «distractions quotes» category

We live in an interconnected world of exploding information density where a million things are clamoring for our attention all the time

We lead our lives so poorly because we arrive in the present always unprepared, incapable, and too distracted for everything.

We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude. In my fear to be alone, I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude.

Until you shut down the doors to distractions you are not yet ready to succeed

We would rarely waste time if it were earned.

When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite with the time that you have.

You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.

Your ability to overcome distractions will determine how long you can stay in solitude.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions.

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth. By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task. It's a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter.

When principles guide you, the shiny stuff isn’t a distraction; it’s just a pretty thing to admire as you walk by on the path to success.

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd, you will be running away from distractions.

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game.

Consistent and chronic distractions have the power we give it focal access, to rob us of our long-term historic memory of unhurried moments in life where we are divinely invited to experience that which is the lovely, praiseworthy and excellent...give heed to the call of voices in a song that raises the vibration of a melodic verses, in such a spectacular way, that our neurons create a bio-celluar concert to revive the soul of our best memories. . .selah

Did you know the average age of a gamer is thirty-two? Now, I don't see anything inherently wrong with diversion and games, but that is certainly telling about our culture, isn't it? Instead of raising families or creating culture, we are sitting around in our living rooms with our eyes glued to the television, simulating life. We are escapists, cowards, and thieves. We hide, occasionally stealing crumbs from the table of those living the good life. We are avoiding the truth that screams at us from the stillness: 'There is more. You are more than this.' So we anesthetize the truth with busyness. Maybe if we just do more, this feeling of emptiness will go away. And we won't actually have to do any real work.

Climb upon the hates, and build upon the loves.

Distractions are part of the journey in Pursuit of your Purpose, manage it without compromising your focus on your dreams.

Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.

Distractions. . . . that's what makes up a big part of our lives, y'know? The distractions. Lots of times, we're like moths fluttering around a porch light. Bugs'll swarm around that bult, all distracted, forgetting in their minuscule insect brains that there's something else they should be doing, like biting people or making more bugs. We're like that, although our brains are generally larger. . . Human distractions are bigger, better lightbulbs. We got TVs and computers. We got blinking casino lights and live bands on cruise ships playing yet another version of 'Hot, Hot, Hot' until you wanna puke, but in the end, they're all just porch light. So we go from one bright bulb to another until we hit the bug zapper, and it's all over.

Don't be impacted by things that are only fleeting temporary distractions.

Don't let people get the best of you they say what they want but don't let that distract you from accomplishing your goals.

Don't let people get the best of you they can say what they want but don't let that distract you from achieving your goals.

Eliminate all distractions and focus on things that add value to your life

Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.

Fight for what you want. Never allow anything to distract you.

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions.

... for the objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.

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

He punched me in the face," Ash said, who understandably did not seem to find the situation humorous at all. "And then he yelled at me for sleeping with our personal trainer!" "I was told breakup scenes were a good way to distract people," Jared said with beautiful simplicity. "Ash looked so surprised," Holly said. "He had no idea what was going on. He said, 'I didn't sleep with our personal trainer! We don't even have a personal trainer!'" Angela and Holly giggled. Ash held the back of his hand to his bleeding mouth and glared. Jared was still grinning like a maniac. "In that case," he told Ash solemnly, "I will consider taking you back.

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

Game changers will, most of the time, throw you off your game.

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

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.” [Woman's Day magazine, March 12, 2002]

If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause.

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.

I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.

I'm the master of distractions. A couple of hand gestures and BAM! I'll pull the underwear clean off your butt.

Imagine that a writer has to finish a novel in three months. The objective is clear; the problem is that the writer can't stop obsessing over it. Every day she wakes up thinking, "I have to write that novel," and every day she sets about reading the newspaper and cleaning the house. Every evening she feels frustrated and promises she'll get to work the next day. Days, weeks, and months pass, and the writer still has't gotten anything down on the page, when all it would have taken was to sit down and get that first word out, then the second . . . to flow with the project, expressing their ikigai. As soon as you take these first small steps, your anxiety will disappear and you will achieve a pleasant flow in the activity you're doing.

If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush.

It is easier to convert your time into products when you move away from any distractions.

… I studied the painting that hangs over the small fireplace. Immerse myself in art, I told myself. Immerse myself in the conversation of those strollers, people who seem to move about more comfortably in their early-evening twilight than I do, people of maybe sixty years ago.

In a world of distractions we begin to ‘live’ on the outside.

Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor of you.

It must be emphasized that hygge entails commitment to the present moment and a readiness to set distractions aside. -Judith Friedman Hansen

Never pay attention to the distractions in life. Focus on possibilities.