Avoid Distractions Quotes

#1. So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

Talib Kweli

#2. I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

Michael Palmer

#3. Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

Clive Barker

#4. I seek distractions in order to avoid the struggle of creating. Creating is hard. Distracting myself is really, really easy.

Ed Cyzewski

#5. No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

Aldrich Ames

#6. If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause.

Kemi Sogunle

#7. I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

Derek Jeter

#8. Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus?

Ched Myers

#9. Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship.

Jack W. Hayford

#10. The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Seth Godin

#11. Realizing that you are in love is itself a beautiful feeling ... And there is nothing like one-sided love or both-sided love. Love is simply love. Celebrate this feeling

Anamika Mishra

#12. Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

Barack Obama

#13. Everyone else has a work party,'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

Sally Brampton

#14. I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

Lisa Cholodenko

#15. I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.

Emily Susan Rapp