Distraction Quotes - Page 18

• Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Sometimes, Abundance

  "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006". abcnews.go.com. December 12, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

  4 Copy quote

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

  Heath Ledger

  Acting

  5 Copy quote

• Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.

  Ashton Kutcher

  People, Care, Sometimes

  "Exclusive interview: Ashton Kutcher talks Steve Jobs". Interview with Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. August 13, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Useless

  4 Copy quote

• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Nice, Book, Weekend

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  21 Copy quote

• I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Thinking, Nuts

  "'I'm quite odd. I do get very dark moods': Simon Cowell's most revealing - and surprising - interview ever". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 23, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.

  J. D. Salinger

  Animal, Boys, Expression

  5 Copy quote

• Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction." I gathered that." Step stool, encyclopedias, floor." I see. Well, I can't thank you enough." Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range." Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.

  Lisa McMann

  Fun, Steps, Attention

  "Fade". Book by Lisa McMann, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Air, Internet

  6 Copy quote

• After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Beautiful, Home, Ideas

  9 Copy quote

• Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

  Clive Barker

  Eye, Filling Up, Should Have

  Clive Barker (1996). “The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Prayer, Eye

  In George Plimpton Writers at Work (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

  Julio Cortazar

  Doors, Profound, Hopscotch

  116 Copy quote

• If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

  Jasper Fforde

  Life, Real, Book

  Jasper Fforde (2009). “Something Rotten: Thursday Next”, p.87, Hachette UK

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Regret, People, Doubt

  6 Copy quote

• I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspiring, Love You, Pieces

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.

  George Clooney

  Arena, Ends, Enjoy

  "George Clooney's Big Surprises: Small Paychecks, Insomnia, Bouts of Loneliness". www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source