#distract

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#antidote #bosses #concentration #demands #disaster

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#bringing #children #competition #distraction #ears

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#distracting #done #element #film #gate

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion .. a distraction -Christian ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#inspirational #life #present #inspirational

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#constitutional #conversation #couch #distracted #easily

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#cover #distracted #field #get #getting

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations. ↗

— Mike May

#distracting #i #input #mainly #out

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#concentration #distract #i #i am #might

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#answer #appearance #attention #certain #distraction

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#between #build #confuses #distracts #i