#distract

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. ↗

— Seth Godin

#because #distraction #early #hard #i

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. ↗

— Zane Grey

#had #me #muddle #writing

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is. ↗

— Terry Gross

#essence #hair #how #ideas #interested

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#distraction #form #materialism #only #true

I don't mind my eyebrows. They add... something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#best #distract #eyebrows #eyes #feature

Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus. ↗

— Dana Hussein

#despite #distracts #energy #focus #full

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#found #free #only #other #you

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#apart #away #brother #cathartic #chance

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract