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Distraction Quotes

Distracted from distraction by distraction

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Four Quartets”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Now I will have less distraction.

Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles (1969)

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

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, James Shirley (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Laws of candy. False one. Little French lawyer. Tragedy of Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas”, p.416

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

"The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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

"The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, 2007.

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

E.B. White (2011). “Here is New York”, p.25, New York Review of Books