Distracted Quotes - Page 6

• You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Quality, Patterns, Thread

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.34, Harlequin

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• Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Expectations, Events

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.5, Vintage

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• Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.

  Indira Gandhi

  Struggle, Energy, India

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• I'll be getting you for this,' Halt had told him as he dabbed the diguisting mixture on the worst of the cuts. 'That soot is filthy. I'll probably come down with half a dozen infections.' Probably,' Horace had replied, distracted by his task. 'But we'll only need you for today.' Which was not a very comforting thought for Halt.

  John Flanagan

  Cutting, Comforting, Today

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• Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Mean, Soul

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• Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!

  Al Murray

  Thanks, Forget, Internet

  Source: www.roland.co.uk

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• Falling into Donald Trump's trap, or being distracted every time he sends out a tweet is really not leadership. And, I would point you to a historical example, Italy's Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, a larger-than-life personality. People didn't know what to do until somebody came up with a novel idea: Why don't we ignore him? They completely ignored the personality, the man, and focused on the issues. He was defeated twice. Maybe we can learn from that lesson.

  Sam Rasoul

  Fall, Men, People

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• As liberals are puppets in Donald Trump's show right now, all he needs to do is create any distraction and all of a sudden, the whole country is completely distracted, including the American left. We need to be laser focused on figuring out what are our values, what do we really want to be defending on the left, and how are we going to do that, coming up with the plan and moving forward.

  Sam Rasoul

  Country, Moving, Distraction

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• When you go on your phone to check what time it is, you get so distracted. It happens to me every day. 'Oh, I just wanted to see what time it is, but now I'm magically on a panda video.' This is the easier way, but it's also a part of your personal style. It ends up becoming a part of who you are, and representing what you love.

  Yara Shahidi

  Style, Personal Style, Who You Are

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Hard Work, Tired

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.

  Nellie McKay

  School, College, Unhappy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Struggle, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

  Matt Drudge

  Personality, Realizing, Stay Focused

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• A machine helps us to annihilate our weaknesses. We don't have a steady hand. We can lose all vigilance. We can be distracted by something that is not that relevant. But we have intuition. We can feel certain things. And with a machine you can check whether it's right or wrong. That's why by bringing the two together, you create a very, very powerful combination.

  Garry Kasparov

  Powerful, Intuition, Together

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time. I turn off the radio and don't read any music blogs, because I tend to get really distracted by new music. When I hear it, I think, "Should I be doing that?"

  Nadine Shah

  Thinking, Trying, Get Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.

  Bill Belichick

  Running, Zero, Block

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Girlfriend, Lying, Moving

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• When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

  Denis Johnson

  Fall, Wife, Alcohol

  Denis Johnson (1983). “Angels”, Knopf

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• ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

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• I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Wife, Missing

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.79, Penguin

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• Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking about what it means. So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Once it's in the viewer's eyes my job will be judged on whether or not it is engaging and pulls you in to a kind of intelligence or poetic something going on there that makes it sustainable to look at.

  Caio Fonseca

  Wall, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Eye, People, Trying

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• When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There's nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.

  Greg Saunier

  Song, School, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sorry, Pain, Sunset

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• Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a opponent, not a quirk of size or style. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accept them, and put them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots. His body quickly follows.

  Ken Dryden

  Hurt, Stress, Mean

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