you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and...

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our...

Some days are hard on us. Life gets serious and shit sucks. But you’re my favorite distraction, attraction and human being. And, I can’t wait to love you more tomorrow.

Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.

The biggest distraction in life to one’s focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.

I didn’t list listening as one of my skills, probably because I didn’t hear what the interviewer asked.

Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I...

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to...

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

Drink my Distraction Juice (not from concentrate). It tastes like love, only not so focused on just one ingredient.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.

We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their...

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a...

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

We need more love, to supersede hatred, —We need more strength, to resist our weaknesses, —We need more inspiration, to lighten up our inner mind. —We need more learning, to erase our ignorance, —We need...

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Whereas the Xerox researcher “was eager to juggle multiple threads of work simultaneously,” the skeptical questioner viewed his own work “as an exercise in solitary, singleminded concentration.” In the choices we have made, consciously or...

Love is one of the most motivating and self-defining forces in our lives, whether we turn from it or allow ourselves to be drawn to it. If you allow romantic possibilities with others to consume...

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

I’d sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I’d get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about...

We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t...

A person who is another man’s slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.

Hey, what is that over there?” and I pointed over your shoulder, and when you turned to look I scribbled my name on the bottom of page one.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Attraction and distraction are the two stumbling blocks that are essentially met en route in life’s journey towards excellence.

If counting is thinking, then the longest I’ve ever thought about any one subject continuously for is 127, 983 seconds. I might have also been in love, though I was too distracted to notice.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him....

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling...

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us,...

I think you polished that one off after last week’s date.” His voice is low right next to my ear, very nearly causing a shiver.

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...

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

Oh, don’t go on like that!” cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. “Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come today. Consider what o’clock it is....

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail

See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you’ve seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth,...

You’re going to miss another class.

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

I needed something–the distraction of another life–to alleviate fear.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)

I can’t blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I’ve spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I’ll do it after...