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Tag Name "Distraction" (333)

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Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
Stefan Molyneux
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Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.
Tenzin Palmo
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Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call.
Linda Stone
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
Blaise Pascal
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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Sharon Salzberg
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Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity let us walk in the Spirit.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
Thomas A. Edison
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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
Laozi
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I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed.
Woody Allen
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Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
Thomas de Quincey
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A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.
Michael Dolan
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Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.
LeCrae
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I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.
Woody Allen
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A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of choice when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.
Thomas Merton
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The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
Michael Moore
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Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
Leonard Cohen
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I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.
Zach Condon
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It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual interruption, not continuity spasmodic, not constant toil.
Tillie Olsen
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Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment.
Michael Ray
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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
Lewis Carroll
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There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.
Tim Ferriss
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Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes.
Michel Odent
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I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
Lincoln Child
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