Quotes on Distraction

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.