Distracted Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

  Glen Hirshberg

  Dream, Jobs, Real

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

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• The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

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• If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.

  Ben Goldacre

  Real, Book, Writing

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• The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

  Russell Edson

  Life Is Too Short, Giving, Advice

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• It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.

  Fanny Crosby

  Beautiful, Blessed, Hymns

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• When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Hunting, Elephants, Rabbits

  Twitter post from Feb 09, 2012

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• The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

  Oliver DeMille

  Differences, America, Making A Difference

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, House

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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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• One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload

  Leonard Cohen

  Inspiration, People, Style

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.347, Omnibus Press

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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.

  Judy Woodruff

  Years, Class, Circles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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