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• It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

  Hilary Duff

  Want, Stay True To Yourself, Craziness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Wisdom, Ambition, Buddhism

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• I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

  Nik Wallenda

  Distracted

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• Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

  Cornel West

  Clever, Yield, Self

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happy, Mind, Contentment

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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• One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

  Bruce Sterling

  Madness

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• People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, People, Scary

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.

  LeCrae

  Joy, Temporary

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• Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

  Talib Kweli

  Compassion, Religion And Politics, Skip

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• I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

  Shania Twain

  Brain, Body, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Birthday, Young Generation, Discipline

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• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Acclaim is a distraction.

  James Broughton

  Madness, Acclaim

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• If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

  Thomas Merton

  Praying, Know How, Knows

  Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.27, New Directions Publishing

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• I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Happy, Butterfly

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• The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

  Glen Hansard

  Technology, Smartphones, People

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• Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

  Stan Getz

  Kids, Choices, Radio

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• These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Focus

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

  Edwin Land

  Dream, Emotional, Thinking

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• Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Tired, Acceptance, Knowing

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  Larry Flynt

  Jobs, Business, Believe

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• Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

  Derek Sivers

  Dream, Regret, Littles

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin

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• You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

  Clarence Thomas

  Fighting, Numbers, People

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• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  Larry Dixon

  Team, Winning, People

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• I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Life, Travel, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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