Need Some Distraction Quotes

#1. Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

Karen Marie Moning

#2. To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.

Maya Angelou

#3. 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

#4. Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

Brigitte Bardot

#5. I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

Sarah McLachlan

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

Danny McBride

#10. 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

#11. I need a distraction.

Colleen Hoover

#12. 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

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

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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

Chris Abani

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

Gloria Steinem

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Jacques Derrida

#20. 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

#21. Every time you observe you give yourself the opportunity to learn.

Libby Fischer Hellmann

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

Criss Jami

#26. My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.

Dolph Lundgren

#27. My headless shadow fell across the warm painted metal, disappearing off the edge, and into the sky.

Kami Garcia

#28. 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

#29. You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.

Anna Lappe

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

Danny Aiello

#31. 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

#32. Fun? There is no fun.

Klaus Kinski

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

Ellen Hopkins

#37. The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn't really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.

Evan Sutter

#38. Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

Claude Lelouch