Distraction Quotes - Page 22

• I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.

  Ed MacFarlane

  Morning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

  Zach Condon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The technological age we're in now is the perfect forum for constant misdirection and constant distraction. I ultimately think it's a war to keep people from realizing the true nature of themselves and the true nature of life. All the things people are in pursuit of now, in 2014, are total illusions. It just destroys people's happiness.

  Mark McGwire

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It's exciting and somewhat daunting. You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together - all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It's as if I've turned into summer itself.

  Ada Limon

  Summer, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You ever go to a restaurant and watch how many families and couples actually talk? No one talks anymore, everybody is in their cellphone, its a distraction.

  Timothy Bradley

  Couple

  Source: thesource.com

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• The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse the short-term crises with the long-term trends. Amidst all of these short-term change are some fundamental structural transformations happening in the economy, and the best way to stay in business is to not allow the short-term distractions to cause you to ignore what is happening in the long term.

  Paul Saffo

  Long, Perspective, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

  Huston Smith

  Sickness

  "Remembering Huston Smith, Noted 'World's Religions' Scholar". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wvik.org. January 4, 2017.

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• I explained to my teammates I didn't want any distractions to the team.

  Derrick Rose

  Team, Teammate, Want

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Use, World

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the line of sight. It's no longer an external conflict, like, oh, I have all these demands and I don't like them. The split is in the self. This may explain why, when I was in Santa Barbara before I went to Singapore and then now to Hong Kong, there was a writing moment when I was writing a poem a day. I had never done that before.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Hate, Writing, Sight

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Complaining, Way, Kind

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

  Arnold Palmer

  Winning, Play, Careers

  "An Interview with the king of golf before the 38th Arnold Palmer Invitational". Golf Content Network Interview, golfcontentnetwork.com. March 16, 2016.

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• One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around 4 or 5 in the morning, long before most of my lab members are up, which gives me some quiet time to really think without distraction. I think that's important.

  Edward Boyden

  Morning, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

  Leonard Cohen

  Ideas, Recognition, Invites

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.

  Jillian Hervey

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

  Brendon Burchard

  Ambition, Attention, Obligation

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• The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.

  Alan Bishop

  Song, Stupid, Important

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.

  James Carville

  Talking, July, Democracy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Cutting, Emotional, Monastic Life

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the Dharma, then it is a logical step to adopt a form of life that automatically precludes worldly distractions.

  Tenzin Palmo

  World, Matter, Steps

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted.

  Kofi Annan

  Use, Sometimes, Situation

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• Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

  Sergio Leone

  Film

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.

  Neal Stephenson

  Want, Connections, Easy

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

  Peter Adamson

  Evil, World, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One of the most important things we can do right now is empower ordinary working Americans who really do deserve a fair shot in this economy. But I'm not afraid to talk about any issue. But I do believe it is a distraction.

  Keith Ellison

  Believe, Issues, Empowering

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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