#distraction

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. ↗

— Scott Weiland

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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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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

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The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction. ↗

— Michael Moore

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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life. ↗

— Sally Pearson

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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction. ↗

— R. L. Stine

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