Distraction Quotes - Page 6

• We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Insecure, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 16, 2015

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• A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

  Cheng Yen

  Past, Worry, Mind

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• Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

  Helen Mirren

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

  Daniel Goleman

  Focus, Way, Boost

  "The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

  C. Wright Mills

  Way, Entertainment, Mass

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• I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

  Suzanne Collins

  Zero, People, Interest

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.590, Scholastic Inc.

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• We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Eye, Challenges, Age

  "Huff Post Exclusive Music Download" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Knowing, Soul, Desire

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• A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

  Thomas Merton

  Freedom, Choices, Tasks

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.6, Macmillan

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• There are always distractions, if you allow them.

  Tony La Russa

  Ifs

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• Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.

  Mike Pence

  People, Presidential, Election

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they will be happy when they have money. Money has nothing to do with happiness. If you are happy and you have money, you can use it for happiness. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will use that money for more unhappiness. Because money is simply a neutral force.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Money, Thinking

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• Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Giving, Narrators

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• My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

  Harlan Coben

  Writing, House, Email

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• We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.

  Rory Vaden

  Goal, Attention, Wake Up

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• I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

  Bill Watterson

  Dark, Thinking, Imagine

  "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

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• Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

  Edna O'Brien

  Running, Responsibility, World

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• I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.

  Kelly Link

  Coffee, Past, House

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• My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

  Toni Morrison

  Games, Names, World

  Source: wordmag.com

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• The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

  John C. Bogle

  Giants, Investing

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, 2007.

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• Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

  David Chase

  Choices, Important, Periods

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• The world needs more than just itself. Amid the dreariness, people do not need a distraction that will in the end become dreary itself; they are asking for mystery, even if they do not realize this themselves. They need the sign of the wholly Other, the living Word of God, entering into this our age in unadulterated trustworthiness and dynamism.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, People

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• An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

  Ken Wyatt

  Leadership, Goal, Tasks

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• To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reflection, Thinking, Errors

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• Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, What Matters, Knowing

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