Distraction is natural. Don’t feel bad when you get distracted. Everyone gets distracted. — Gary Keller
A multitude of books distracts the mind. — Socrates
Multitasking takes a toll. At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress. — Gary Keller
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. — Doug Horton
If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking. — Naval Ravikant
The pursuit of comfort is a distraction from the true essence and purpose of life. — Michael Easter
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing. — Sanford Meisner
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus. — Deepak Chopra
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. — Hilaire Belloc
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away. — Tom Noonan
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength. — Ramana Maharshi
We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose. — Bob Goff
Short Distraction Quotes
Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals. — Michelle Obama
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. — Talib Kweli
Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions. — LeCrae
A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius. — Alex Hormozi
Don't be distracted by doubters. — Kid Ink
When you feel jealousy, you shift all your attention and energy to whoever is making you jealous. — Tim Grover
He who runs after two hares will catch neither. — Japanese Proverbs
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. — Gilda Radner
Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. — Gary Brecka
Who chases two rabbits catches neither. — Japanese Proverbs
Distraction Image Quotes
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. — H. Emilie Cady
Children are not a distraction from more inportant work. They are the most important work.
Beautiful Distraction Quotes
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams. — Raoul Vaneigem
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. — Voltaire
Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor. — Demian Bichir
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside. — Criss Jami
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty. — Michel Faber
We have been distracted from our power, but we can take that power back and create a beautiful world. — Bryant H. McGill
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions. — Susan Sontag
I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts. — Frederick Lenz
No Distraction Quotes
Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention. — Andrew Carnegie
Commitment gives you freedom because you’re no longer distracted by the unimportant and frivolous. — Mark Manson
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears — Greek Proverbs
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one…. — Pope John Paul II
There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. — Will Smith
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face. — Karen Marie Moning
One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you. — Sheryl Crow
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant. — Jeannette Walls
There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why? — Mooji
Personally as a rider, I find the helmet distracts me. I can't hear as well and I can't see as well. I also believe loud pipes save lives and my pipes straight through with no baffles in them. — Jesse Ventura
I Need A Distraction Quotes
We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure. — Lysa TerKeurst
If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction. — F. Paul Wilson
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature? — Muriel Barbery
I was recently told by a guy friend that red lipstick during the summer is distracting, and I said, "You need to shut up because I love red lips in the summer." Guys are stupid, moral of the story. — Brittany Snow
I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted. — Pauline Marois
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with. — Alison Bechdel
When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better. — Suzanne Ciani
I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write. — Dan Chaon
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence. — Alison Hawthorne Deming
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money. — Rufus Wainwright
Positive Distraction Quotes
Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top. — DJ Khaled
I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction. — Greg Gutfeld
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. — Bill Russell
Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors. — Pal Benko
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused. — Chin-Ning Chu
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.] — Anatole France
Girl Distraction Quotes
Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister. — John Sebastian
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders. — Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Girls were always my biggest distraction in school. — Channing Tatum
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion. — Diane Cilento
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day. — William Bolitho
Try not to catch a girl when she's not in a great mood, tired or distracted. — Elizabeth Tan
I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men. — Joanna Trollope
Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points. — Boris Becker
He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl. — Dave Barry
Good Distraction Quotes
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration. — Paul Ryan
You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing. — Gerry Cooney
What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self. — Rama Swami
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart. — Bonnie Raitt
So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young. — Johnny Cash
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. — Manuel Puig
This is not a problem. I'm making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I'm going to shoot. One good result and I'm coming back. This is a distraction, it's the calm before the storm. — Ernests Gulbis
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at. — Charles Hard Townes
People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass. — Karen Russell
It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores. — Katie Holmes
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. — Michelle Obama
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock. — Queen Elizabeth II
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. — Jon Katz
Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes. — Michel Odent
The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception. — John Hagee
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of time,
The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts — T. S. Eliot
If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted. — Warren W. Wiersbe
What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand. — Bill Parcells
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces. — Julius Evola
Get to that Zone where you can shut out all the noise, all the negativity and fear and distractions and lies, and achieve whatever you want, in whatever you do. — Tim Grover
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets. — Tracy Morgan
Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David
Getting to know yourself better might just be the most important thing you can do this year. For most of us, this will require more intentional time alone without distraction from our smartphones. — Rangan Chatterjee
The overarching point is that what we think of as ‘distractions’ aren’t the ultimate cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief from the discomfort of confronting limitation. — Oliver Burkeman
Cleaners understand they don’t have to love the work to be successful; they just have to be relentless about achieving it, and everything else in between is a diversion and a distraction from the ultimate prize. — Tim Grover
Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task. — Marcus Aurelius
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty. — Michael Bassey
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives. — William Wilberforce
Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things and harder to be distracted by the wrong things. — Tim Grover
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility. — Neil Postman
Europe is in serious decline and Europeans know it. This is our Brezhnev era. We all know things aren’t getting better. That is why our leaders distract themselves with increasingly destructive and dangerous war fantasies. — Philip Pilkington
The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives. — Paul Kagame
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