Distraction Quotes - Page 26

• Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

  William Stafford

  Decision, Life Is, Easy

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• Do me a favor?” he whispered. Beth's hold tightened on his hand. ”Anything, what do you need?” ”Hum the Jeopardy theme.” There was a pause.Then Beth burst out laughing and swatted his shoulder. ”Wrath-” ”Actually,take your clothes off and hum it while doing some belly grooves.” As his shellan bent down and kissed his forehead, he looked up at her through his wraparounds. ”You think I'm kidding? Come on, we both need the distraction. And I promise I'll tip well” "You never carry cash." He extended his tongue and swept it over his upper lip. "I plan on working it off.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Hands, Clothes

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• I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Might, Rooms, Patches

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• Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

  Janet Mock

  Inspiring, Teenager, Makeup

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction, but cooking for the people whom you wake up with and go to sleep with is the best thing ever

  Kim Severson

  Sleep, People, Creative

  Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.104, Penguin

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• The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

  Saul Bellow

  Writing, Sea, Distracted

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• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

  Joseph Sobran

  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Art, Civilization

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• If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.

  Nate Saint

  Christmas, Hate, Sacrifice

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• The first thing I'd say is stop paying such attention to Trump's tweets. They're a total distraction. I think we should instead be carefully watching the actions of groups like Freedom Partners, Chamber of Commerce, the Koch's big donor operation. The Club for Growth is another part of this, and Americans for Prosperity on the ground.

  Nancy MacLean

  Thinking, Growth, Attention

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun. I spent my late adolescence in New York and I used to go to a lot of gay clubs. The music there was always just about love and connection and celebrating life. I think, for people going through something really hard, to go to a place where you can let loose and listen to music as a distraction, that's about a better place, a better way of life - that's where all the attraction lies.

  Halsey

  Fun, Lying, Gay

  "Halsey: I lost a sense of who I was". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. June 27, 2017.

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• Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.

  Sarada Devi

  Mind, Inquiry, Filling

  "Women Saints of East and West". Book by Swami Ghanananda, June 1, 1979.

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• But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crazy, Home, Mean

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

  Albertus Magnus

  Spiritual, Eye, Heart

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• Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Focus, Attention, Maps

  Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There came a time in everyone’s life when they realized that in spite of how hard they’d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.

  J.R. Ward

  Running, Addiction, Band

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• I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

  Lauren Oliver

  Winter, Kissing, Feet

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Doe, Clubs

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'

  Ravi Zacharias

  Journey, Keys, Light

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• I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.

  Frank O'Hara

  Moving, Eye, Army

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• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  Bryan Adams

  Clever, Media, People

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• An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

  J.R. Ward

  Book, Mind, Needs

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unbound: Number 5 in series”, p.306, Hachette UK

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• I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Focus, Needs, Opera

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I've tried to be vegetarian but I keep falling off the horse and, like, eating it'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

  Raymond Carver

  Writing, Responsibility, Stories

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• Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.

  John Robbins

  Animal, Compassion, People

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