Avoid Distraction Quotes

#1. Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#2. What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

A.J. Darkholme

#3. All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

Samuel Richardson

#4. However, do not confuse distraction with avoidance. When you avoid a distressing situation, you choose not to deal with it. But when you distract yourself from a distressing situation, you still intend to deal with it in the future, when your emotions have calmed down to a tolerable level. The

Matthew McKay

#5. If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.

Tony Fadell

#6. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.

Ayn Rand

#7. I don't think I'm made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

Claude Monet

#8. It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

Morris Graves

#9. I think I'd better do the actual stealing," Hermione continued in a matter-of-fact tone. "You two will be expelled if you get into anymore trouble, and I've got a clean record. So all of you need to do is cause enough mayhem to keep Snape busy for five minutes or so.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#11. I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and listened to all of them. These definitely have at least a superficial relationship to each other because they're all very spare.

Will Oldham

#12. I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

Eric Ries

#13. A brief note on the legend of Pandora's Box: Ever wondered why bundled in with all the torrents, and suffering of man kind the Gods put hope down there at the bottom, answer because in certain circumstances hope can be the worst torment of them all.

Tom Holt

#14. We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

Meghan Daum

#15. You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.

Honeya

#16. Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.

Edward Abbey

#17. Beautiful has never been my goal.

Pink

#18. People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

Criss Jami