Distracted Quotes - Page 15

• My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Past, Perfect

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• If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, States, Ifs

  Dalai Lama (2002). “Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?

  Mooji

  Believe, Inspiration, Practice

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• Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Real, Practice

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Creative, Energy

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• Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

  Russell Simmons

  Simple, Goal, Trying

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2016

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• Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Mind, Quiet

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

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• We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

  Bob Goff

  Purpose, Captivated, Ifs

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2015

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• Do you ever wonder why often you can't have the things you want most? Perhaps if you got them in this life, they would distract you from Him. Perhaps He withholds some things that you love in this life to keep your heart from being distracted...and then gives those things to you in the next. Forever.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Giving, Forever

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• A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

  Cheng Yen

  Past, Worry, Mind

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• I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

  Zach Braff

  Procrastinating

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• Don't be distracted by doubters.

  Kid Ink

  Doubters

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• Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Past, Ideas, Mind

  Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.108, Penguin

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

  Ben Lerner

  Self, Trying, Kind

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Dream, Sleep, Grind

  "INTERVIEW: Glen Hirshberg, Author of MOTHERLESS CHILD". Interview with Kristin Centorcelli, www.sfsignal.com. June 2, 2014.

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• If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

  Tim Ferriss

  Creating, Distraction, Ends

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• It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Perspective, Important, World

  "Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Connelly & Paul Bettany Discuss Making ‘Shelter’ & the State of Homelessness in NYC" by Aramide A Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 13, 2015.

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• He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Judgement, Multitudes

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.361, A&C Black

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• To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, People, Leader

  "Obama, Cheney: Different Views On Protecting U.S". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 22, 2009.

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• My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

  Reggie Bush

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• Developing the capacity for clear light dreams is similar to developing the capacity of abiding in the non-dual presence of rigpa during the day.  In the beginning, rigpa and thought seem different, so that in the experience of rigpa there is no thought, and if thought arises we are distracted and lose rigpa.  But when stabliity in rigpa is developed, thought simply arises and dissolves without in the least obscuring rigpa; the practitioner remains in non-dual awareness.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Dream, Light, Abiding

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.63, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

  Joel Osteen

  Waste, Life Is, Valuable

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• I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

  Adele

  Treats, Wells, Right Now

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