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• Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

  John Amos Comenius

  Years, Boyhood, Obscure

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Mean, Reality, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Play, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted them. We do not see without our biases, our habits of life and thought.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Life, Book, Lazy

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• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Kissing on screen is just, funny enough you're just acting so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am. I'm actually always coming away from those things going like, 'I wonder how I kissed just now.' Because I have no idea! I'm just thinking about what's happening.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Kissing, Thinking, Ideas

  "'Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials': Dylan O'Brien Talks Stunts, Unromantic Romance and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 12, 2015.

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• It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Awards, Justice

  The AMC Interview, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Mind, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.

  Sarah Dessen

  Jobs, Giving Up, Writing

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

  Sam Altman

  Mistake, Common, Excited

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• It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

  Dan Mangan

  Giving, Challenges, Ongoing

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.

  Adam Haslett

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: threeguysonebook.com

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• If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world of fear, yoga promises strength and courage. A healthy body and a disciplined mind are the foundations of a world free from fear. In crafting a new self through Yoga, we create a new world.

  Narendra Modi

  Stress, Yoga, Self

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• Film sets are great fun. Film people are great people to hang around with. I don't want to run off and be distracted by other things.

  Eric Bana

  Running, Fun, People

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• [J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.

  John Adams

  Character, Men, Law

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.198

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• A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

  Meat Loaf

  Moving, Cameras, Locks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

  Jane Hirshfield

  People, Silence, Listening

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

  Nick Cannon

  Awards, Fake, Gold

  "Nick Cannon Shares Spoken Word Poem About Oscars Controversy". www.billboard.com. January 24, 2016.

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• I don't want kids to be distracted by pipe dreams.

  Kimberly Elise

  Dream, Kids, Want

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.

  Syesha Mercado

  Superficial Things, Matter, Forget

  "American Idol’s Syesha Mercado: On Honesty, Acceptance, and Being Present". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Opportunity, Long

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Italian, Cities

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