Distraction Quotes & Sayings To Inspire You

Looking for quotes & sayings about distractions? We have rounded up the best collection of distraction quotes, sayings, captions, slogans, status messages, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to be more focused in life, work and relationships.

Distraction Quotes & Sayings

“Your real competition is your distraction.”
“Are you healed or just distracted? Don’t confuse the two.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Where your attention goes, your time goes.”
“Distractions are easy to find and hard to leave!”
“Be the motivation. Not the distraction.” – Rob Hill Sr
“Distracted from distraction by distraction.” – T. S. Eliot
“We are not that busy; we are just distracted.” ― Shawn Wells
“Every great waste of time begins with a small distraction.”
“If you commit to nothing, you’re distracted by everything.”
You can’t do big things if you’re distracted by small things.”
“If Satan cannot have your heart, he’ll do his best to distract it.”
“Distraction is a killer of dreams, visions and goals.” – Topsy Gift
“The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.” – Aristotle
“Attachment of anything is the distraction of everything.” – Anand Thakur
“A distracted existence leads us to no goal.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Competition isn’t ruining your business. Distractions are.” – Robin Sharma
“Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.” – Sharon Salzberg
“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” – Adam Hochschild
“Technology is not a distraction, but it is the mind which consider it for the that.”
“Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.” – Sarah Blake
“An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.” – Robin Sharma
“Stop getting distracted by things and people that have nothing to do with your goals.”
“Thinking is the ultimate distraction, the ultimate escape from reality.” – Marty Rubin
“Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.” – E. Habib
“I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“Very powerful distraction nowadays are the notification sounds from social media.” – Giridharan K
“Being distracted keeps your focus away from achieving your goals and overcoming your limitations.”
“Advertising is 48% distraction; 4% information; and 48% manipulation.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“I needed something—the distraction of another life—to alleviate fear.” – Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
“Children are not distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis
“Distractions destroy action. If it’s not moving you towards your purpose, leave it alone.” – Jermaine Riley“
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Viktor Frankl
“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.” – Talib Kweli
“Messes create distraction. And distraction reduces your power to achieve every goal you set.” – Robin Sharma
“O woman, perfect woman! what distraction was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!” – John Fletcher
“We have more choice than ever before, but no matter what we choose, we have lost the ability to really pay attention to it.” ― Yuval Noah Harari
“A mind that is worried about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.” – Cheng Yen
“Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.” – Cornel West
“The Internet is a big distraction. It’s distracting, it’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.” – Ray Bradbury
“Distraction: Just another meaningless message to keep you from paying attention to all of the issues that really matter.”
“I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail” ― Rose Pressey“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other’s ‘full attention’. They grew up in a culture of distraction.” – Sherry Turkle
“The result of information overload is usually a distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.” – Zig Ziglar
“Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it’s an indulgence; a distraction. You can’t live in a distraction.” – Gulzar
“Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere.” – Bruce Lee
“I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction.” – Seth Godin
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” – Julio Cortázar
“Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you’re traveling in.” – Sam Owen
“These distractions will remain only till you fail altogether. So just let it go and build your life as such you become an unavoidable distraction for them.”
“Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.” – Alan Cohen
“When people can’t bury themselves with work, they can’t run away from their feelings and all it needs is a little free time to reveal who they are.” – Sarvesh Jain
“Disconnect from everything long enough to see if it feeds your soul or if it’s a distraction. What’s deeply connected will always remain.” – Maryam Hasnaa
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“We fight too many battles that don’t matter. If the battle is not between you and your destiny, then it is a distraction. You have to learn to let things go.” – Joel Osteen
“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
“Study and practice as much as you can. There will be distractions, such as friends or family wanting your time and attention, but make sure your work doesn’t suffer.” – Dana Levin
“Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.” – Helen Mirren
“Be aware when distractions come your way. You’ll know it’s a distraction when you stop doing what you’re supposed to be doing and find yourself pondering things that have no value.” – Beverly R. Imes
“Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however if you can do both things its fantastic.” – Bryan Adams
“The moment of drifting into thought has been clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.” – Glen Hansard
“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline because you need to be alone to find out anything.” – Vivienne Westwood
“The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.” – Stephen Baxter
“The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.” – Noam Chomsky
“Distraction and Focus: Distraction is death but focus is life. Distraction is illness but focus is health. Distraction is poverty but focus is wealth. Distraction leaves regret but focus gives happiness. Distraction stoops us to low but focus help us going high. Distraction is reason for failure but focus is need for success.”
“You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That’s all I want. That’s all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.” – Larry Fitzgerald
“The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.” – Tom Vanderbilt
“A person who is another man’s slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
“However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?” ― Ernest Bramah
“I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.” ― Ransom Riggs
“Procrasdemon is fighting hard to feed off of distractions and pleasures.” ― Neeraj Agnihotri
“I can’t blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I’ve spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I’ll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.” ― Colson Whitehead
“Whatever takes your mind off yourself is good for you.” ― Marty Rubin
“The ability to memorize a very large number of things is not nearly as valuable as the ability to tell what is worth remembering.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“He felt the craving within him, the need to be entertained. And they all felt this way; the settlement yearned for the bizarre.” ― Philip K. Dick
“Nothing is wrong in fighting a battle, but something is wrong in fighting a wrong battle.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi
“We are life in the age of so much fuckin notification distract our focus.” ― Gun Gun Febrianza
“You are my distraction now, whether you want it or not. So take responsibility for it.” ― Melanie Sargsian