Quotes about Distraction

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I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can — Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed. — Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is — Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, follo — C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps — Criss Jami, Killosophy
As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a po — Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod
The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child ho — Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners
Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal e — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickne — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about t — Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are n — Francesca Lia Block, House of Dolls
All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concent — Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost ba — Colson Whitehead
If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, me — Hilary Mantel
We are here to love. Everything else is distraction. — Scott Stabile
If you keep focusing on what people have to say or will say about you, you will lose focus of what God has called you to — Kemi Sogunle
knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings — Sunday Adelaja
It's alright to keep and open mind, but at a certain point—once you have thoroughly completed your homework—you have to — Injap Sia, Life Principles
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greates — C.S. Lewis
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjo — George Eliot, Middlemarch