Distractor Quotes

#1. It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet.

Daniel Goleman

#2. The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.

Assegid Habtewold

#3. Only my penis is still free and happy, no good for sword fights and no good for any work, or even for hanging things on, or for digging trenches. Praise be to God that it is so.

Yehuda Amichai

#4. No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

Helen Keller

#5. I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Orson Welles

#6. Anything war can do, peace can do better.

Desmond Tutu

#7. If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

Angela Kinsey

#8. The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'

Jochen Zeitz

#9. The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Andrew Carnegie

#10. I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

Harold Prince

#11. The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James

#12. Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.

Paul Bloom

#13. Irabu is a fat, pus-y toad.

George Steinbrenner

#14. Life is like sand on the beach. Each time the waves comes to the edge, it takes a little bit of you".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#15. I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.

Lord Kelvin

#16. In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. This was what humans fumbled for. This was what they quested for in the dark.

Brad Vance