Top 100 Distraction Quotes
#1. If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.
Peter Lynch
#2. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#3. I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.
Danny Aiello
#4. I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis
Philip Zaleski
#5. He is not only a distraction I can't afford but a heartbreak waiting to happen. His allegiances are shaky at best. One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.
Victoria Aveyard
#6. Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
Francois Fenelon
#7. I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.
James Surowiecki
#9. Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant
Jodi Picoult
#10. I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.
Greg Gutfeld
#12. Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction ... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.
David L. Ulin
#13. Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.
Jorge Luis Borges
#14. No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
Jonathan Kozol
#15. John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.
Paul C. Nagel
#16. 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
#17. People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.
David Allen
#18. At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#20. In our digital distraction we've lost a basic truth: fresh air, sunlight, and movement make us feel better.
Julie Holland
#21. When there is no distraction, there is clarity.
Lorii Myers
#22. There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."
He said, "Love always is.
Evangeline Walton
#23. Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.
Andrew Skurka
#25. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?
Mooji
#27. I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.
David Levithan
#29. It's never too late to tell a good story, to create a new myth that rouses us from our intoxicated slumber, that lifts us above the din of confusion and arms us against the weapons of mass distraction.
Derek Rydall
#30. Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.
Thomas A Kempis
#31. It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.
Dan Mangan
#32. Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.
James Thurber
#33. Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
Fred Rogers
#34. I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.
Jessica Ennis
#35. Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
Robert Kurson
#36. Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
Dan Millman
#37. I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.
Woody Allen
#38. We borrow. We steal. We purchase what we need and buy what we don't. We acquire things, people, places, all in the process of losing ourselves. Busyness is the religion of distraction. I cannot talk to you, because I have too much to do.
Terry Tempest Williams
#39. Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.
Henry Seidel Canby
#40. Possessions can be, and most often are, a distraction from the real work of a knight's life. A lion doesn't own anything at all, yet we all know his power.
Ethan Hawke
#41. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#42. Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
Flannery O'Connor
#43. I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.
Ransom Riggs
#44. providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each
John Charles Pollock
#45. I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
J.D. Salinger
#47. The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
Helen McCloy
#48. The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
Robert Greene
#49. Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
Billy Collins
#50. Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention
Sunday Adelaja
#51. People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.
Criss Jami
#52. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.
Pankaj Mishra
#53. I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
Lincoln Child
#54. 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.
Roger Ebert
#55. When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
Anne Katherine
#56. There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
Jenny Nimmo
#57. If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.
Thomas Merton
#58. My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
Mary Roach
#59. The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.
Fennel Hudson
#60. The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.
Steve-O
#61. To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
Ellen Glasgow
#62. By going with him, I would have simply imposed myself on him; I would have been a distraction. I helped him follow his heart and his greater good.
Kavita Kane
#63. Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored.
Neil Gaiman
#64. Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Cornel West
#65. 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
#66. I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.
Gunnar Nelson
#67. A gladiator's first distraction is his last.
Oenomaus
#68. Even a good family can become a trap for one's destiny when the family becomes your aim
Sunday Adelaja
#69. I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.
Chris Mars
#70. Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
Denis Waitley
#71. Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
Philippa Gregory
#72. You're the only distraction I want. You're the one exception to my rules.
Vina Arno
#73. Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.
A.A. Milne
#74. The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline ... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Vivienne Westwood
#75. She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It's kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn't listening.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#76. Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
Barbara Tuchman
#77. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Tillie Olsen
#78. I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
#79. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I looked at the world above. I watched the sky as it turned from silver to gray to the color of rain. Even the clouds were trying to get away.
Markus Zusak
#80. Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.
Andrew Bird
#81. We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.
Christian Marclay
#82. My weakness and my strength, my purpose and my distraction, my redemption and my undoing.
R.K. Lilley
#83. They were surrounded by people, seemingly enjoying the company, but they kept stealing glances at each other as if everything else were just a distraction. It
Sonali Dev
#84. Time to employ some anti-distraction techniques in this war for our meanings.
K.A. Gunn
#85. The face in the bed seemed to deepen its expression of wild, but motionless distraction. Mrs Bolton looked at it and was worried. She knew what she was up against: male hysteria. She had not nursed soldiers without learning something about that very unpleasant disease. She
D.H. Lawrence
#86. We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.
Bonnie Raitt
#87. Peace isnt the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. Its finding Me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those distractions and annoyances and pains.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#88. But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.
Tim Gunn
#89. Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.
Howard Rheingold
#90. The limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention ... miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.
Marlo Morgan
#92. Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
Jen Pollock Michel
#93. He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.
Ransom Riggs
#94. Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and distraction.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#95. Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.
Jim George
#96. The promise of a social gospel was for Luther an irrelevant and ultimately irrelevant and ultimately cruel delusion.
Andrew Pettegree
#97. What chance did words have beside the distraction of her body?
Stuart Dybek
#98. I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.
Viggo Mortensen
#99. You want to take me on? Do it. I'm going to enjoy this because, honey, I need a distraction from the real turmoil going on in my life.
Tijan
#100. That cheery, flimsy distraction from Death; or in a pinch Law & Order, because on some station or other, at any time of day or night, you can find it
Detective Benson! Detective Stabler! My long lost!
and no longer be alone.
Claire Messud
