Distraction Quotes
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Four Quartets”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
"The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".
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
"Women Saints of East and West". Book by Swami Ghanananda, June 1, 1979.
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