#distraction

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

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To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

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I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard. ↗

— Guy Picciotto

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One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired. ↗

— George Eliot

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News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

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Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice. ↗

— Stan Getz

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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Saul Bellow

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