Quotes About Distraction

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

You can't keep putting things off by grilling beards

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

Escucha con atención lo que han dado por llamar titulares y que él bien sabe que todos los días es la misma cosa. Los muertos de hoy sustituyen a los de ayer, los políticos con sus necedades perpetuas y los futbolistas adormeciendo voluntades.

I am waylaid by beauty.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The urgent can drown out the important.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

Fuss is the froth of business.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

Distraction is married to discontent