Top 100 Distraction Quotes
#1. It's sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don't have to ever deal with the true pain below
Evan Sutter
#2. Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings. You develop patience. Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer.
Robert Greene
#3. I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
Tom Noonan
#4. The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.
Zig Ziglar
#5. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
Meg Jay
#7. Simplicity and subtlety make for the best con. A distraction should lead the mark's attention upward, either toward the sky or to some better vision of himself. Color signals danger. Try to appear to have as many eyes as possible.
Jeffrey Ford
#8. People tried to force me to feel better. But the only things that worked were time and distraction. Distract yourself. Stay busy. Count marshmallows, study frogs, whatever it takes. Time heals all wounds. It just does.
Carrie Firestone
#9. At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
Kevin Hart
#10. The only reason I kissed you was as a distraction from what I really wanted to do, which was strangle you.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#11. Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you" (1 Pet. 5:7). (The German word for worry means "to strangle." The Greek word means "to divide the mind." Both are accurate. Worry is a noose on the neck and a distraction of the mind, neither of which is befitting for joy.)
Max Lucado
#12. If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.
Kevin Dutton
#13. Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.
Howard Zinn
#14. The chronic fun of writing, the distraction of it, was not knowing.
Gregory Maguire
#15. I hate to interrupt such a touching scene but those hellhounds are not going to wait for you two to play kissey face. So, unless you intend to nail a chunk of roast beef to my butt and have me run around as a distraction, I would suggest we prepare for battle. Pg. 113-114
Alexandra Ivy
#17. Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity.
Claire North
#18. The battle between focus and distraction is a serious problem - both to the competitiveness of our companies and to our own sanity.
Jocelyn K. Glei
#19. If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
F. Paul Wilson
#20. Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.
Aunjanue Ellis
#21. I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...
Hedi Slimane
#22. If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.
Rajneesh
#23. Some days are hard on us. Life gets serious and shit sucks. But you're my favorite distraction, attraction and human being. And, I can't wait to love you more tomorrow.
Crystal Woods
#24. I needed a distraction. A drink, a good tumble, anything - even this sure-to-be- trouble punk show.
Alexandra Martin
#25. An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.
Robin Sharma
#26. Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
Douglas Horton
#27. She's been a distraction for him, but not a necessity of life. More like a super-strong mint: intense while it lasted but quickly finished.
Margaret Atwood
#28. Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
Norah Vincent
#29. At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
Boyd K. Packer
#30. If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
Tim Ferriss
#31. Mark Twain has been credited as saying, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." And I might add a third: the day you throw off any distraction and decide to pursue your purpose fully.
Joshua Becker
#32. 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
#33. The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.
Isaac D'Israeli
#34. You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.
Toby Jones
#35. My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.
Marc Edwards
#36. Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.
Ashton Kutcher
#37. Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.
Marilynne Robinson
#38. PizzaGate Is an Orchestrated Distraction from Trump's Involvement in Pedophilia.
David Howard
#39. I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.
Sarah McLachlan
#40. Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong - or fairness versus unfairness - that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.
Sharon Salzberg
#41. He craved her distraction, and called the number. She read with melodic enticement, polarizing him.
Anonymous
#42. My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.
Neal Asher
#43. Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.
Joel Osteen
#44. In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ...
Steve Almond
#45. The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
Michael Moore
#46. Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
#47. The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
Saul Bellow
#48. Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.
Boris Becker
#49. Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.
Ehabib
#50. Well, let's look on the bright side," I said, deciding he needed a distraction. "Don't." "The good news is that we'll probably be either rescued or dead before we have to worry about serious hypothermia. There's always a silver lining, Hunter.
Joanna Wylde
#51. My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.
Ani DiFranco
#52. When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.
John O'Donohue
#53. 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
#54. What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.
Nicholas G. Carr
#55. By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.
Sallie Tisdale
#56. She knew she could kill him in a variety of gory ways in less time than it took him to adjust the strange spectoculums that rested on the very end of his nose, but even this distraction didn't seem to help!
Stuart Hill
#57. 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
#58. I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
Derek Jeter
#59. Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful.
James Turner
#60. I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
Ben Stiller
#61. 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
#63. Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#64. You don't need to go back in time to be awesome; you just have to start right now. Regretting that you didn't start earlier is a great distraction from moving on your dream today, and the reality is that today is earlier than tomorrow.
Jon Acuff
#65. Fact, in overt disguise, is often
all
people need to embrace
lies invented as distraction.
Ellen Hopkins
#66. Their excessive consumption of fiction was an essential distraction from their broken home.
Michael Ebner
#68. When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
Victor LaValle
#69. When the world seems to be spinning out of control I choose:
faith over fear;
action over paralysis;
focus over distraction;
reflection over reaction;
to stay grounded rather than getting swooped up in the chaos.
Charles F. Glassman
#70. If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless. Distraction here and there opens the way for counterproductive emotions, leading to many kinds of trouble.
Dalai Lama XIV
#71. Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
Alan Cohen
#72. The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction
Aristotle.
#73. Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy ... But our task is the opposite of distraction ... how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.
Henri Nouwen
#74. 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
#75. The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
Sue Townsend
#76. Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?"
"It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak."
Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud."
P303
Dan Wells
#77. If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
Jasper Fforde
#78. Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
Nhat Hanh
#79. For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire.
Rumi
#80. Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#81. It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's problems; it hurts the country.
Phil Gramm
#82. Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Gary Zukav
#83. Elevate yourself away from anything or anyone who stunts your growth by distraction, you will never get round to watering your own plant if you wait for there approval to do so. Before you know it there garden will be full and yours would never have been started.
Keysha Jade
#84. In an age of network tools, in other words, knowledge workers increasingly replace deep work with the shallow alternative - constantly sending and receiving e-mail messages like human network routers, with frequent breaks for quick hits of distraction.
Cal Newport
#85. Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
Amishi Jha
#86. Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
Walter Kirn
#87. Daily toll on your willpower reserves can be reduced by setting clear and specific goals, making decisions in advance (every decision costs willpower), minimizing distraction and anticipating problems (and how to deal with them).
William D. Edwards
#88. Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
Claude Lelouch
#89. It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.
Tony Stewart
#92. While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
Robert Genn
#93. If I'd known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and
given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer's arms and I needed
the distraction Nicole provided.
Abbi Glines
#94. Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Sharon Salzberg
#95. You were never a distraction to me, Sam. You were always my reprieve.
Aly Martinez
#96. When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?
Peter Thiel
#97. Distracted from distraction by distraction
T. S. Eliot
#98. Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.
Robert Kiyosaki
#99. Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
Thomas De Quincey
#100. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it.
Markus Zusak
