Distraction Quotes - Page 14

• I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Reading, Writing, Phones

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• Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Regret, Personality, Wish

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• I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

  Heath Ledger

  Acting

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• Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.

  Sherry Turkle

  Teenager, School, Phones

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• When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way that empowers the audience, informs them and brings them closer to the action. CNN has always been an innovator on election night, with the Magic Wall leading the way. Tonight, for the first time, and we're going to put the Magic Wall in the hands of our audience. Along with our partners at Microsoft, we have built a tool to let our users drill down into the key races and access a great deal of data, real time, as the results are unfolding.

  Andrew Morse

  Wall, Real, Technology

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• To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Imagination, Solitude

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• There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.

  Caroline Knapp

  Simple, Thinking, Long

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.108, Dial Press

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• For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Desire, Mountain

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• There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Nice, Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.19, Random House

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• He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hatred, Feelings, Gestures

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• Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Moments, Being True

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Hunger, Suspects

  "Whose Words Are They, Anyway?" by David Margolic, www.nytimes.com. November 01, 1987.

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• I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No. What it did mean was that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking to recognize anything as awe-inspiring. . . . I hadn't been paying attention to the beauty around me.

  Sue Thoele

  Mean, Mind, Attention

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.98, New Harbinger Publications

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• I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Fear, Another Life, Alleviate

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• Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!

  Kathy Reichs

  Running, Loss, Pimp

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• It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Wanted

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.245, Scholastic UK

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• Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Life Is Short, Understanding, One Day

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Orange Girl”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Writing, Soul

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• I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my head. But there isn't enough liquor or art or any other distraction in the world to do it. I had to stop going to Wolfe's because it was too hard being that close to you, even if it was all just pretend fighting. I couldn't stand the touching. It was agonizing because it meant something to me－and I knew it meant nothing to you. I kept telling myself to stay away altogether, and then I'd find excuses… like the car… anything to be around you again.

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Stupid, Believe

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.323, Penguin

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• If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.

  Abbi Glines

  Attention, Arms, Given

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.12, Abbi Glines

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• He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

  Voltaire

  Grace, Burning, Charm

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

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• For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

  John Berendt

  Cities, People, Personality

  John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage

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• some of my happiest funniest times have been spent in offices. Perhaps because the work was mudane, even the tiniest of distractions become wildly hilarious and wonderful. Actually, I'd say that 90 per cent of my doubled-over-gasping-with-laughther-laughing-so-much-that-you-can't-breathe-and-you-think-you-might-die laughing has occurred during slow days in offices.

  Miranda Hart

  Thinking, Laughing, Office

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• Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.

  Patricia Briggs

  Notebook, War, Home

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.1106, Penguin

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• Because sometimes there's more worth in silence than noise. Sometimes everything you need to know is contained in that small quiet space. Sometimes we get so caught up in distraction and noise and seeking other people's approval we forget the quiet seed of truth that lives in our hearts. But just because we fail to tune in to it, doesn't mean it's not there.

  Alyson Noel

  Heart, Mean, Space

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