Need A Distraction Quotes

#1. Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. I need a distraction.

Colleen Hoover

#3. 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

#4. When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?

Muriel Barbery

#5. What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

John Zorn

#6. I personally find the ideas that girls need to cover their shoulders in school a little bit strange ... when we're telling girls, you know, 'You have to cover your shoulders because otherwise you're a distraction to other people in your class,' probably something is wrong.

Rebecca Stead

#7. The travel writer Bruce Chatwin wrote that our nomadic past lives on in our need for distraction, our mania for the new.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

Chris Abani

#9. To move from here to there, sometimes there is a need to suspend the present realities; they can be a distraction.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Go get him, tiger, I silently told him. Shouldn't you be working? he asked. Yes, I said frankly. But the world outside these walls is depressing, and I need the distraction. You may begin impressing me now.

Chloe Neill

#16. Fact, in overt disguise, is often
all
people need to embrace
lies invented as distraction.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#18. 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

#19. We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.

Lysa TerKeurst

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Danny Aiello