Distraction Quotes - Page 3

• News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Important, Buzz, Information

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• I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

  Sarah McLachlan

  People, Needs, Done

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• I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

  Guy Picciotto

  Thinking, People, Norm

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• Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

  John Boehner

  Fighting, Iraq, Retreat

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• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

  Jackie Kennedy

  Life, Husband, Home

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• I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

  Guy Picciotto

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Art, Butterfly, Men

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• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  Manuel Puig

  Teaching, People, Madness

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• If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

  Diane Cilento

  Girl, Fashion, School

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• There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

  Robert Breault

  Purpose, Each Day, Annoying

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• He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

  Kit Williams

  Later In Life, Calling, Madness

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• I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

  David McCullough

  Book, Today, Madness

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

  Louise Mensch

  Sisterhood, Hair, Eyebrows

  "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Player, Hands

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• The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, Home, Parenting

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

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• The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

  Michael Moore

  Majority, Weapons, Madness

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• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Pain, Reading

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business.

  Mike Matarazzo

  Workout, Block, Eye

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Creative, Madness

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• I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

  Derek Jeter

  Thinking, Want

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• The R.E.M and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. R.E.M and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

  Greg Ginn

  Mean, Trying, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

  Ben Stiller

  Depressing, New York, Giving Up

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• It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

  John Cage

  Mean, Listening, Acquisition

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.78, Wesleyan University Press

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• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, America, Madness

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• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Ernst Fischer

  Media, Boss, Mind

  Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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