Distraction Quotes - Page 3

Acclaim is a distraction.

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?

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

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

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.