Distraction Quotes
Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.
You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.
There’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it’s a 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.
I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.
Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.
Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.
Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.
On your way to accomplish greatness, you will hear a lot of noise. Listen to your inner voice and never let the distraction of the crowd discolour your poise.
Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable
Your ability to overcome distractions will determine how long you can stay in solitude.
When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite with the time that you have.
That is a vacation! It is the best time for you to be productive because you are not being distracted by work.
We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose
We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character
Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things
Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou
The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future.
Even a good family can become a trap for one’s destiny when the family becomes your aim
There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.
Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.
Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.
Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.
Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.
I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.
...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.
I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail
Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.