271 Quotes About Distraction

My temptation is to tackle everything at once, or nothing at all.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

So many distractions, when all she wanted was silence, so she could understand what was going on

For months we had been talking of him and him alone, and yet it was difficult to believe in his existence — he was more like a legend to us — and quite a few of us were convinced that the authorities had invented him, him and his elephants, to distract attention from the political unrest that was the real cause of trouble in the Oule country.

I can't talk about my childhood at all, because cannot say "I" when I mean "we," and if I say "we" it leads to a conversation about how I have a dead sister, instead of what I want to talk about. I found that out in the summer. So I don't talk about it.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.

Closing one’s eyes when praying doesn’t increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted.

He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusiona distraction

Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.