Distraction Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

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.

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.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

The abundance of books is distraction

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