Distractions Quotes

Don't let people get the best of you they say what they want but don't let that distract you from accomplishing your goals.

~ Alcurtis Turner

I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.

~ Terry A O'neal

Climb upon the hates, and build upon the loves.

~ Anthony Liccione

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

~ William Stafford

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been born in 1929.

~ Miranda July

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

~ Orrin Woodward

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

~ Onyi Anyado

I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence. In my experience, Resistance kicks in any time we try to move ourselves from a lower plane to a higher. In other words, when we try to align with the better parts of our nature. This move can be creative (art) or physical (athletics) or it can be ethical, moral or spiritual. Have you ever tried to meditate? I have and it kicks my butt every time. Spiritual stuff is hard! But so is making “cold calls” if you’re opening a new business. Somehow the principle is the same. We’re trying to overcome our natural laziness, selfishness, sloppiness, etc. So I wouldn’t say “art,” I’d say “virtue.

~ Steven Pressfield

It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.

~ Dean Koontz

Pressure knocks at my doorA clock ticks and demands its dueThe lava burns from the floorBut not in a game like it used to.So little time to figure it all outSo many distractions to prevent successI’m in a dark forest with no path or routeBut this internal fire knows no rest.

~ Justin Wetch

Manifestation blossoms when we turn down or tune out doubtful noise.

~ T.f. Hodge

I'm the master of distractions. A couple of hand gestures and BAM! I'll pull the underwear clean off your butt.

~ Si Robertson

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

~ Adam Hochschild

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

~ Daniel Goleman

Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions.

~ Rebecca Ferguson