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• Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, School, Madness

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• It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

  Katie Holmes

  Party, Shoes, Hollywood

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• I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

  Andrew Bogut

  Basketball, Sports, Play Hard

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

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• I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

  Billy Collins

  Thinking, Path, Poet

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• Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fear, War, Thinking

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• Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Beauty, Dream, Humanity

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  Lewis Carroll

  Education, Ambition, Turtles

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

  George Plimpton

  Art, Attention, Midst

  George Plimpton (1967). “Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews”

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• Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

  Jason Mraz

  Jobs, Dad, Choices

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• President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Anger, Frustration

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spring, Ignorance, Vanity

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• This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  House, Important, Addresses

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• Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Mind, Quiet

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

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• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  Bob Graham

  War, Successful, Iraq

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• It is so important that you don't get distracted by what you are not. You need to start confessing your persona and living in it, and don't be bewildered by your circumstances. Just stay on course with what God is promising you.

  Graham Cooke

  Important, Needs, Circumstances

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jun 10, 2013

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• I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns.  Thorns are anything that distracts us from God.  When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil.  A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

  Francis Chan

  God, Sports, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.45, David C Cook

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• Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Focus, Independence, Tasks

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.205, Penguin

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• As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Discovery, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.14, M-y books ltd

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• If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Years, Practice

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• Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

  Games, Hands, People

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• I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

  Lincoln Child

  Writing, Listening To Music, I Can

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• If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

  Tim Ferriss

  Creating, Ends, States

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• We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Leadership, Wisdom, Health

  "Queen's Christmas message - full text", www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2013.

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• If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Waiting, Ends, Ifs

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• When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Meditation

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