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Quotes About Distractions

There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.
~ Melina Marchetta
If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.
~ Melissa Marr
Belichick's 'genius'- a term he does not like applied to himself- is more than an ability to easily sift through distractions and nonsense and identify the central point.
~ Unknown
But Trump was a simple machine. Whitestone understood his singular interests—sports and girls—and learned they could be used as reliable distractions.
~ Michael Wolff
Only by himself could he feel himself, only by himself he could tell himself 'I am me' Before others, among the busy and distracted crowd, he didn't feel himself. Almost every man lives subconsciously in boredom. Boredom is the pit of life, it was boredom what invented games, distractions, romances and love.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Si vas a detenerte con cada perro que te salga a ladrar al camino, nunca llegarás al fin de él». No sirve itrarle piedras. No le hagas caso.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If being alone is seen as a chance to accomplish goals that cannot be reached in the company of others, then instead of feeling lonely, a person will enjoy solitude and might be able to learn new skills in the process. On the other hand, if solitude is seen as a condition to be avoided at all costs instead of as a challenge, the person will panic and resort to distractions that cannot lead to higher levels of complexity.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When the job presents clear goals, unambiguous feedback, a sense of control, challenges that match the worker's skills, and few distractions, the feelings it provides are not that different from what one experiences in a sport or an artistic performance.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Many of the peculiarities attributed to creative persons are really just ways to protect the focus of concentration so that they may lose themselves in the creative process. Distractions interrupt flow, and it may take hours to recover the peace of mind one needs to get on with the work. The more ambitious the task, the longer it takes to lose oneself in it, and the easier it is to get distracted.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When the debilitating distractions and stressors are minimized, you become more transparent, and your deep desires fall through the clarity into your conscious mind.
~ Unknown
It is only the depth of character that determines the profundity with which we face life. We can either add to our character each day or we can fritter away our energies in distractions. Those who learn how to accumulate character each day achieve a depth that cannot be successfully opposed.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Twoje podniecenie jest dla mnie jak wibruj?ca wst?ga - wyszepta? jej do ucha zachrypni?tym z emocji g?osem - ale dla innych, to po prostu szum w tle. B?d? skupieni na ich partnerach ?yciowych, kochankach, dzieciach – innych wst?gach. S? ich miliony w ka?dej otaczaj?cej nas chwili. ~In Stroke of Enticement.
~ Nalini Singh
Todo nuestro pasado nos ha preparado para reconocer y resistir una prisión cuando las rejas empiezan a cerrarse detrás de nosotros. Nos alzamos en armas contra estos problemas. Pero ¿qué si no se sienten gritos de angustia? ¿Quién está preparado para luchar contra un mar de diversiones? ¿A quién y cuándo nos quejamos, y en qué tono de voz, cuando un discurso serio se disuelve en risas estúpidas?
~ Neil Postman
America is engaged in the world's most ambitious experiment to accommodate itself to the technological distractions made possible by the electric plug.
~ Neil Postman
When our brain is overtaxed, we find "distractions more distracting.
~ Unknown
Psychologist Dr. Terry Orlick has been studying excellence in sports, business, and life for decades. He is world renowned for his motivational and mental approach to peak performance. Orlick has determined that there are seven components of excellence: commitment, focus, confidence/trust/belief, positive imagination, mental readiness, controlling distractions, and constant learning.
~ Nick Saban
Whatever keeps you from reaching your goals today had better be important - it's costing you a day of your life!
~ Nido R. Qubein
Purpose is a call to action. But in order to hear that call and respond to it, we need to understand the distractions that get in the way of a serious discussion of an organization's Purpose. And in many companies, that starts with the most persuasive distraction: the maximization of profit. PURPOSE
~ Unknown
some of the stuff you mourn isn't worth the energy. Life will be full of many other things to distract you and cause worry.
~ Obert Skye
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these become at last their most serious concerns.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).
~ Oswald Chambers
A warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).
~ Oswald Chambers