Distraction Quotes

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

Now I will have less distraction.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

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.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

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.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

A gladiator's first distraction is his last.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

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.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

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

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

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

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

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

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

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

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

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

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

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.

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

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

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

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

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

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

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

Acclaim is a distraction.

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

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

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

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?

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.