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I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
Women use men's weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction.
My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?
It's difficult when you have a new baby but, at the same time, a nice distraction.
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.
I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.
If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.
When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.
The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
White ball cricket can be taxing on bowlers and can be a distraction for a youngster, too.
You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.
What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.
I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.
I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.
I want to focus on my training and leave no room for distraction. So, reality-tv shows are a no-no.
Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.
Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.
I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.