Good Distraction Quotes

#1. Hard work's a good distraction.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. 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

#3. Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Manuel Puig

#4. I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

Danny Aiello

#5. 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

#6. The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

Karl Marx

#7. Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.

Ehabib

#8. Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

#9. 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

#10. I needed a distraction. A drink, a good tumble, anything - even this sure-to-be- trouble punk show.

Alexandra Martin

#11. What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

Criss Jami

#12. People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.
The black and the black and the black.

John Fowles

#13. As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

William Shakespeare

#14. A friend that complains virtually about everything is no good a friend but a distraction.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#15. This is not a problem. I'm making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I'm going to shoot. One good result and I'm coming back. This is a distraction, it's the calm before the storm,

Ernests Gulbis

#16. The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Aeschylus

#17. If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.
It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.

Rick Yancey

#18. People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.

Karen Russell

#19. ..the good life warrants an ongoing struggle to be clear about what's important, and to seek it with lucidity and passion; not to be distracted by false ambitions, or waylaid by dissipated conscious

Damon Young

#20. Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Orhan Pamuk

#21. Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon ... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction
that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.

Arnold Bennett

#22. Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it's only for a short while?

Michelle Madow

#23. To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.

Tara Bennett-Goleman

#24. It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction.

Plautus

#25. I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

Heidi Montag

#26. What else is God good for other than a distraction from the mire we're all stranded in?

Hannah Kent

#27. Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful.

Joanna Runciman

#28. The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

Peter Kreeft

#29. In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

Chris Matthews

#30. Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

Philippa Gregory

#31. Even a good family can become a trap for one's destiny when the family becomes your aim

Sunday Adelaja

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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