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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

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone. — Meghan Daum

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

Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in. — Sam Owen

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

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

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

Time to employ some anti-distraction techniques in this war for our meanings. — K.A. Gunn

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

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

This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it. — Sherry Turkle

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

By going with him, I would have simply imposed myself on him; I would have been a distraction. I helped him follow his heart and his greater good. — Kavita Kane

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

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news? — Harold Holzer

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

Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death. — N. T. Wright

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. — Robert Breault

You're the only distraction I want. You're the one exception to my rules. — Vina Arno

This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one. — Mark Sayers

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. — Chuck Palahniuk

Wine often makes people say things, do things without the distraction of a conscience. — Marsha Canham

It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction. — Plautus

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. — John C. Bogle

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

PizzaGate Is an Orchestrated Distraction from Trump's Involvement in Pedophilia. — David Howard

You want to take me on? Do it. I'm going to enjoy this because, honey, I need a distraction from the real turmoil going on in my life. — Tijan

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. — George Eliot

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free. — Alan Cohen

Your calling is important, regardless of its status or other people's opinion — Sunday Adelaja

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

It's sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don't have to ever deal with the true pain below — Evan Sutter

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. — Orhan Pamuk

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction. — Ehabib

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

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree. — Robert Bolt

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

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production. — Robin Sharma

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant. — Jeannette Walls

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. — E.B. White

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

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one. — Tom Kite

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 exploits
That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides;
And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction. — Joseph Addison

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. — Shania Twain

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

What else is God good for other than a distraction from the mire we're all stranded in? — Hannah Kent

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us, — Douglas Rushkoff