Craig Daniels
Source: https://mindfulnesscreates.com/10-distractions-we-often-avoid/
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
Patricia Highsmith
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
Winston Churchill
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.”
Sunday Adelaja
“How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?”
Joyce Rachelle
“Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.”
Craig Groeschel
“We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude."
Scott Stabile
“Happiness can only be found if you free yourself of all other distractions.”
Saul Bellow
“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.”
Tracy Chevalier
"Distracted from distraction by distraction"
T.S. Eliot
"Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it."
Sharon Salzberg
"Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself."
Marilyn vos Savant
"Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists."
Cornel West
"Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."
George Plimpton
"The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction."
Bill Watterson
"Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world."
Edna O'Brien
"Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it."
Lupe Fiasco
"I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work."
Kelly Link
"We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard."
Meghan Daum
"Every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness."
Gary Zukav
"There's no writer's block; there's only distraction."
Carolyn Chute
"I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain."
Shania Twain
"We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes."
Rebecca Pidgeon
"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."
Blaise Pascal
