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• The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Confusion, Ordinary

  Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc

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• Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fall, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

  Roger Ebert

  Crazy, Suicidal, Perfectly Good

  "Roger Ebert On Why 3D Movies Suck" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2010.

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• Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so.

  Shawn Johnson

  Yoga, Reality, Phones

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• I hate to say this, but one of the biggest distractions can be friends and family. You want them to be there and support you, but when you need to get your rest or focus, you need to communicate that to them.

  Swin Cash

  Hate, Support You, Focus

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• In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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• Love, you drive me to distraction.

  Dave Matthews

  Love You

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• The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

  Bill Vaughan

  Keys, Two, Childhood

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• Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

  Dylan McDermott

  Compassion, Helping, Embrace

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• Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

  James Hollis

  Black And White, Journey, Today

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• It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

  African Spir

  Boredom, Feelings, Needs

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• People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

  Rob Payne

  Laughter, Filling Up, Shopping

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.

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• By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Letting Go, Moving, Emotional

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• [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.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Might, Filling

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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• The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.

  James H. Austin

  Happy, Spiritual, Attitude

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press

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• The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

  David Douglas

  Moving, Journey, Hiking

  David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

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• The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

  Twyla Tharp

  Cheating, Two, Energy

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.

  Julie B. Beck

  Mother, Children, Reading

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• It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  May, States, Constant

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• 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

  Thinking, Play, Going Away

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Tim Gunn

  Negativity, Students, Designer

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• It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  Marat Safin

  Dream, Tired, Thinking

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• Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Scholarship

  Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

  Plato

  Law, Evil, Would Be

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.269

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• 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

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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