Distraction Quotes - Page 14

• [When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Memories, Confused, Moving

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• The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.

  Michael Huffington

  Spiritual, Jobs, Order

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Song, Writing, Silence

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• Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Opportunity, Calling

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 15, 2013

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• Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Reading, Medicine, Proud

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• Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions... Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Children, Growing Up, Hard Work

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• There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.

  Jack White

  Nice, Kids, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Broken

  H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

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• The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Party, Fall, People

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

  Francois Fenelon

  Views, Glory, Impatience

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.

  Andrew Skurka

  Communication, Thinking, Two

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Sitting, Obsessing

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• We have so many distractions. We're losing the family unit. We're losing the one-on-one. We're becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There's a lot to deal with out there.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Becoming, Narcissistic, Losing

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Book, Choices, Facts

  Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Letters to a Young Man: And Other Papers”, p.40

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• If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Moving, Mirrors

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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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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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• Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

  Claude Lelouch

  People, Needs, Cinema

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

  Henri Nouwen

  Entertainment, Life Is

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Sometimes, I think people just want a distraction. It's something you can get excited about that doesn't have to do with politics. It makes you think there's something larger than ourselves - and that can be very powerful.

  Sara Seager

  Powerful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Determination, Life Changing, Focus

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

  Al Gore

  Luxury, Giving, Causes

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.

  Milla Jovovich

  Mother, Baby, Strong

  Romy & The Bunnies Interview, romyandthebunnies.com.

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• I don't tend to listen to music in training, except maybe the radio in the gym. I do use music prior to racing though; it helps to fire me up plus it's good for blocking out the distractions around me.

  Chris Hoy

  Block, Fire, Racing

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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