#distract

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#distraction #fear #life #life

I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail ↗

— Rose Pressey

#men #men

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired. ↗

— George Eliot

#education #education

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you. ↗

— Eric Bana

#distracted #either #going #i #i think

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#buzz #calling #clearly #distraction #easy

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#attack #bad #distract #either #film

Acclaim is a distraction. ↗

— James Broughton

#distraction

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#dictionaries #distraction #enough #excellent #impossible

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture." ↗

— John Cage

#better #culture #distraction #entertainment #listen

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#distraction #expect #fashion #get #going