Distraction Quotes

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

[Donald] Trump's pension for distractions is starting to frustrate members of his own party.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Love, you drive me to distraction.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

I think a lot of the national Democrats believe that, you know, Iraq is a distraction and not part of the War on Terror. They've said so. And I strongly disagree.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

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

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

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

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.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

Hard work's a good distraction.

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 intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

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

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.

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.