#tract

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. ↗

— Shania Twain

#brain #distraction #i #talent #want

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#been #european #expressionism #i #i think

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#any #consequences #contract #deserves #goes

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#awards #because #distracted #done #film

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#created #different #different things #distract #help

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arises #cinema #color #difficulty #element

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#become #choose #continue #increasingly #long

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction. ↗

— John Boehner

#distraction #fight #friends #iraq #often