Quotes about distractions

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.

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.

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 reflectio

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

One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction

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

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.

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

Climb upon the hates, and build upon the loves.

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

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 li

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.

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

Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

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

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.

Eliminate all distractions and focus on things that add value to your life

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.

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

… 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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings