271 Quotes About Distraction

He felt the craving within him, the need to be entertained. And they all felt this way; the settlement yearned for the bizarre.

To give something or someone your attention is to give it or them a portion of your life.

Don't let the indecision of others distract you.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

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

Nothing calms an anxious mind like a little mindless entertainment.

T. S. Eliot wrote, ‘Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.’ We long for this, and yet we check our smartphones every ten minutes for news, texts, distraction.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.