Distraction Quotes
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Distraction Quotes & Sayings
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I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.
— Viggo Mortensen
Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus
— Ryan Holiday
My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)
— Shannon A. Thompson
Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.
— Thomas A Kempis
One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.
— Philip Zaleski
I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
— Sarah McLachlan
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
— Rebecca Pidgeon
Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity.
— Claire North
I need a distraction.
— Colleen Hoover
JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.
— David Pietrusza
Security is by far the city's predominant business.
— Ron Suskind
Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
— Flannery O'Connor
If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.
— Kevin Dutton
There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.
— William Clay Ford Jr.
The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
— Helen McCloy
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction ... What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
— Tillie Olsen
Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
— Harold Holzer
FOCUS, FOCUS, CONSOLIDATED FOCUS.BEWARE OF DISTRACTION — Ikechukwu Joseph
In our digital distraction we've lost a basic truth: fresh air, sunlight, and movement make us feel better.
— Julie Holland
Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.
— Nicholas Dawidoff
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
— Loretta Chase
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Hard work's a good distraction.
— Scott Westerfeld
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Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
— Barbara Tuchman
I've always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.
— Katarina Bivald
I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again.
— Charlotte Bronte
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
— Delmore Schwartz
More voices means less trust in any given voice.
— Eli Pariser
When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
— Anne Katherine
I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.
— Woody Allen
My weakness and my strength, my purpose and my distraction, my redemption and my undoing.
— R.K. Lilley
providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each
— John Charles Pollock
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
— Jane Fonda
Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou
— Mark Kurlansky
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.
— Robert Breault
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Wine often makes people say things, do things without the distraction of a conscience.
— Marsha Canham
You're the kind of woman who could easily be a distraction if I let you. If I want to come home alive, I can't let you.
— Cat Johnson
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
— George Eliot
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
— Ray Bradbury
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
— John Fletcher
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
— Orhan Pamuk
For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
— Henry David Thoreau
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
— Victor LaValle
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
— Stefan Molyneux
Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual's gaze from more painful thoughts.
— Irvin D. Yalom
You keep distracting me," I tell her."All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!"
"Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j — Jodi Picoult
When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.
— Dennis R. Miller
Their excessive consumption of fiction was an essential distraction from their broken home.
— Michael Ebner
Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.
— A.A. Milne
Even a good family can become a trap for one's destiny when the family becomes your aim
— Sunday Adelaja
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
— Jeannette Walls
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.
— Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
— Victor Hugo
To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
— Ellen Glasgow
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
— William Wilberforce
Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
— Frank Herbert
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
— Chris Abani
Who didn't want the distraction of a willing body to remind you that you hadn't just been made for suffering
— Mia Sheridan
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
— Christina Baldwin
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
— Dwight Yoakam
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Regrets ... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.
— Andrew Ashling
There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
— Robert Breault
Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.
— Channing Tatum
True fortitude is seen in great exploitsThat justice warrants, and that wisdom guides;
And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction. — Joseph Addison
Distraction seems to be the last thing Finnick needs,
— Suzanne Collins
Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
— Meg Jay
In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
We forget about death. We are too busy with our distraction. And when it hits, it hits hard.
— Raditya Dika
Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
— Philippa Gregory
