271 Quotes About Distraction

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

After giving it some thought, I've decided to name my monkey mind Ricky Bobby. I was thinking about Latin names like Javier, but I don't want to make my jumping, distractable self sound mysterious and sexy. Ricky Bobby makes me laugh. A name like that seems silly, not strong. Just a goofy little thing that doesn't know what to do with its hands, likes to go fast, and loves tiny, infant, baby Jesus.

The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

Security is by far the city's predominant business.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

On the road to your target, you see other roads to other targets! Those who are hopeless from their target often turn to these new targets and disappear on the horizon of these new roads! The lover cannot usually reach his targeted love for the same reason! All targets require strict concentration and all distractions are the enemies of reaching the targets!