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...

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

I needed a distraction. A drink, a good tumble, anything—even this sure-to-be- trouble punk show.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his...

weren’t you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)…

The soul is “torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

… answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.

Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.

Larry Bird looks like a bird, and Johnny Vagina looks like—hey, what is that in the sky?

Only in sleep, where there’s nothing but mind, can the mind clearly process all of the day’s experiences/memories – without distraction. And, perhaps, only in sleep, where there’s nothing but mind, can the mind truly...

We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction...

Jane Austen never did marry. Why doesthat statement call for such reflexive pity? It carries a diferent meaning if we follow it up: Jane Austen never did marry, and therefore she was given the time...

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with...

When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.

The difficulties of life should not distract you from the pursuit of your goals. Graciously pursue your goals.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.