#distraction

This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#affair #aside #become #constituents #distraction

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

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#intimacy #love #memory #past #imagination

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! ↗

— William Wilberforce

#prayer #business

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#distraction #love #orhan-pamuk #reading #snow

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient." [The Guardian, 25 February 2010] ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#distraction #inspiration #openness #problem-solving #procrastination

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#passion #life

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short. ↗

— Adam Hochschild

#distractions #hard #plentiful #short #work

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn’t listening.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#distracted #distraction #funny #humor #listening