Distractions Quotes

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk

Big, Problems, Lives

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
Barack Obama

Money, Truth, Small

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Adam Hochschild

Work, Time, Hard

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Edwin Land

Work, Family, Money

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt

Wife, Job, Doubt

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
Paul Ryan

Good, Fear, Anger

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

May, Goal, Obstacles

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

Yourself, Free, Found

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
Larry Dixon

Winning, Goal, Working

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.
Hilary Duff

Life, Yourself, True

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.
Simon Mainwaring

Time, Wrong, Again

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.
Herman Cain

Family, Hurt, Fighter

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Time, Nice, Book

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

Everything, Points

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
Harlan Coben

Done, Write, House

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.
Heath Ledger

Great, Acting, Outside

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
Clarence Thomas

Life, Fight, Against

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.
Alexander McCall Smith

Life, Time, Writing

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

Feeling, After, Start

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
Marc Almond

Creative, Older, Younger

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.
Andrew Bogut

Best, Game, Hard

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.
Scott Ritter

Success, Give, Chance

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
Bill Keller

Social, Media, Aggressive

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
Nik Wallenda

Life, Distracted, Trained

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
Naveen Jain

Time, Great, Focus

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
Karen Thompson Walker

Morning, Mind, Through

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.
Hu Jintao

Confused, Afraid, Develop

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.
Joel Robuchon

Good, Food, Goes

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
David McCullough

Life, Good, Today

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.
Danny Aiello

Good, Great, Bad

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