Distraction Quotes

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

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.

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

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

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

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

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

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

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

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.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Acclaim is a distraction.

People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.

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

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

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?

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

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.

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.

As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.