Distraction Quotes - Page 4

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?

You ever go to a restaurant and watch how many families and couples actually talk? No one talks anymore, everybody is in their cellphone, its a distraction.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in the day, the better, before the parade of distractions starts.

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.

Hard work's a good distraction.

As liberals are puppets in Donald Trump's show right now, all he needs to do is create any distraction and all of a sudden, the whole country is completely distracted, including the American left. We need to be laser focused on figuring out what are our values, what do we really want to be defending on the left, and how are we going to do that, coming up with the plan and moving forward.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.