Distraction Quotes
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Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
George Plimpton -
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
Norah Vincent
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Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that e-mails as governor published are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.
Sarah Palin -
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
Rebecca Pidgeon -
In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.
Candy Chang -
True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose.
Caroline Emelia Stephen -
There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head. Part of the reason we're on our phones or watching television or reading magazines is to give our heads something else to listen to other than our own thoughts.
Eric Lange -
Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.
Eric Lange
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Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
Raoul Vaneigem -
But it does take the determination that you're going to put your thoughts upon something that does feel good. And so, here we're going to make a very bold statement: any disease could be healed in a matter of days, any disease, if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate - and the healing time is about how much mix-up there is in all of that.
Esther Hicks -
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
Ray Bradbury