Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the...

virtue.

It had nothing to do with the game. It was a well-played game. It wasn’t even a distraction for either team. Maybe the fans and everybody else got excited.

It’s a very loud distraction for the markets.

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

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

We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life of clutter such as wasted time, energy, resources, or draining...

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

And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to...

if you will always give great ears to the cacophony of the masses instead of the solemn voice of your true purpose, you will never leave a distinctive footprint

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...

The devil doesn’t give a hoot if you’re a pastor, attend church or read your bible. His main priority is to distract you from praying in Jesus’ name and applying the word of God to...

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

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

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....

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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.

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

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

We had too many distractions going into the Morales fight. Now a lot of the bad people are away from the scene and we have a good team, now.

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

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.”[Woman’s Day magazine, March 12, 2002]

They become a distraction and can be injured.

He’s got to learn a game plan. He doesn’t need any other distractions other than getting himself prepared, … The more he can do that the better he’ll feel going into the game rather than...

Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public,

I think it provides a pleasant distraction.

When all the distractions and diversions have been made, at the end of it all we’re about one mighty task, and that’s vindicating the rule of law, … Therefore, it’s very important that we don’t...