Undistracted Quotes

#1. The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

Jenefer Robinson

#2. In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.

Nicholas Carr

#3. Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts - the faster, the better.

Nicholas Carr

#4. Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#5. I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.

Kenneth Oppel

#6. The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

Susan Minot

#7. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment - upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses.

John Keats

#8. You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

Sara Maitland

#9. As long as I stay #undistracted, I can live both His promise as well as his dream.

Bridgett Renay

#10. Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

John Cleese

#11. The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

John Eldredge

#12. It seemed to her there was a peacefulness about him that came with resignation, with the extinction of that last hope, like a perfect humility undistracted by the possible, the unrealized, the yet to be determined.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. Those who can sit in a chair, undistracted for hours, mastering subjects and creating things will rule the world - while the rest of us frantically and futilely try to keep up with texts, tweets, and other incessant interruptions.

Arianna Huffington

#14. The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.

Joseph Goldstein

#15. It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies.

Ellen Page

#16. If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

Frederick Lenz

#17. The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look
and remembered to open your eyes.

Jeaniene Frost

#18. Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Joseph Campbell

#19. Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. If someone tells you that you can't do it then it actually means that they can't do it.

Vikrmn

#21. I am the false character that follows the name around.

Don DeLillo

#22. Drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,
within I am awake
repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns

Frank Bidart

#23. I'm a 21st-century guy, secure in who I am.

Eric Holder

#24. You can find a better you inside of you. Why don't you search for that?

Munia Khan

#25. Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.

Gore Vidal

#26. I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Abraham Lincoln

#27. The only opponents Reacher truly feared were small whippy guys with fast hands and sharp blades.

Lee Child

#28. And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.

Ben Goldacre

#29. I am just a guy who plays drums.

Bill Kreutzmann