Quotes About Distractions

Education is the empowerment of the mind to continuously seek the true and the beautiful, regardless of ideological distractions.

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.

Yeah, I'm more interested in my iphone, MacBook and gadgets than hot girls.

It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship to Trinity College the previous year. Perhaps if there had not been quite so many things to distract me, I might have remained a mathematician.

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

Sometimes, especially when you are in the traffic behind other cars, you get a lot of stuff - sand, oil - and if that mixes up that can be very bad for the vision sometimes.

Going to the Portland Trail Blazers, who actually took the time to invest in me, was perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me in my career. I got to a small market where I could focus on basketball, basketball, basketball. No distractions.

I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.

I concentrate on training. I go to the gym. I want to put the football first, not the social media or what's going on around the camp.

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

Sometimes I think the greatest achievement of modern culture its its brilliant selling of samsara and its barren distractions. Modern society seems to me a celebration of all the things that lead away from the truth, make truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.

Stop letting unnecessary thoughts feed your mind. It's nugatory. Focus on your long-time goals and maximize your 86, 400 seconds today.

Maybe the people who feel the need to create and express themselves also need to cloud that over sometimes," Westerberg explained in a more candid moment. "Sometimes you don't want to be creative. You just want to be normal and not have to worry, or think, or write. People will then turn to distractions like drugs, liquor, or whatever.

but the truth is - and I am ashamed of this now - that I was far more interested in boys and bicycles, than in politics - and more in bicycles than boys, I have to say.

I have no choice but to be 100-percent-focused. My two hours get blown up nearly every single day by breaking news.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.

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.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.