Distraction Quotes

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  By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

  Christopher Columbus

  School, Goal, May

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• Distracted from distraction by distraction

  T. S. Eliot

  Social Media, Distracted

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Four Quartets”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

  Bill Parcells

  Past, Hands, People

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• Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Adversity, Men, Mountain

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• Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

  Adam Hochschild

  Time, Hardship, Plentiful

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• In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

  Pico Iyer

  Age, Attention, Feels

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Energy, Waste, Concentration

  Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.43, Workman Publishing

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• A gladiator's first distraction is his last.

  Oenomaus

  Firsts, Lasts

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• If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Learning, People

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• An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Addiction, Achievement

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• We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.

  Joe Kraus

  Thinking, Creating, Long

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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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• The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

  Noam Chomsky

  Keys, Issues, Political

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• You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Madness, Ifs

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• For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Events, Causes

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

  Saul Bellow

  Free Yourself, Madness, Found

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• Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Done, One Thing

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• Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 12, 2014

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• If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.

  David Deida

  Integrity, Careers, Discipline

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• Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Giving, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2011

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thought Provoking, Religion, Literature

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 12 (1941)

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• Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Multitasking, Madness, Arise

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• Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).

  Michael E. Mann

  Agreement, Opposites, Doe

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• Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

  Douglas Horton

  Motivational, Success, Simplicity

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