Distractions Quotes

Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

~ Stephanie Perkins

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

~ Francesca Lia Block

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 do. Never let distractions bother you...if you do, you will only be giving your energy to an unworthy cause.

~ Kemi Sogunle

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

~ C.s. Lewis

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd, you will be running away from distractions.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Your ability to overcome distractions will determine how long you can stay in solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor of you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite with the time that you have.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is easier to convert your time into products when you move away from any distractions.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

~ Ray Simpson

We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone,I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude.

~ Scott Stabile

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

~ Sunday Adelaja

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

~ Craig Groeschel

Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.

~ Suzy Kassem

So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.

~ Ryel Kestenbaum

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

~ Farshad Asl

… I studied the painting that hangs over the small fireplace. Immerse myself in art, I told myself. Immerse myself in the conversation of those strollers, people who seem to move about more comfortably in their early-evening twilight than I do, people of maybe sixty years ago.

~ Diane B. Saxton

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

~ Shannon L. Alder

For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.

~ Amitav Chowdhury

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

People who are distracted by door money, neglect the production and the audience. Money becomes their god. They sacrifice their reputation in favor of building revenue. Believe me; the former is more difficult to recover if lost.

~ Carlos Wallace

Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Never pay attention to the distractions in life. Focus on possibilities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fight for what you want. Never allow anything to distract you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?

~ Joyce Rachelle

The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.

~ Criss Jami

I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.

~ Carlos Wallace

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions.

~ Oscar Bimpong

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

~ Jonathan Franzen

Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to systematical oppression, in distractions that keep us mentally, socially and often physically retarded.

~ D. Allen Miller

Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth.By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task.It's a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter.

~ Peter Rogers

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

~ Patricia Highsmith

Consistent and chronic distractions have the power we give it focal access, to rob us of our long-term historic memory of unhurried moments in life where we are divinely invited to experience that which is the lovely, praiseworthy and excellent...give heed to the call of voices in a song that raises the vibration of a melodic verses, in such a spectacular way, that our neurons create a bio-celluar concert to revive the soul of our best memories. . .selah

~ Tracey Bond

Talking to oneself is a recognized means to learn, in fact, self-speak may be the seed concept behind human consciousness. Private conversation that we hold with ourselves might represent the preeminent means to provoke the speaker into thinking (a form of cognitive auto-stimulation), modify behavior, and perhaps even amend the functional architecture of the plastic human brain. Writing out our private talks with oneself enables a person to “see” what they think, a process that invites reflection, ongoing thoughtful discourse with the self, and refinement of our thinking patterns and beliefs. Internal sotto voice conversations with our private-self provide several advantages, but most people find it difficult to maintain self-speak for an extended period. Internal dialogue must compete with external distractions. Writing allows a person to resume a personal dialogue where they left off before interrupted by outside stimuli. A written disquisition also provides a permanent record that a person can examine, amend, supplement, update, or reject.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster