#distraction

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#chosen #destination #distractions #goal #his

America is addicted to wars of distraction. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #distraction #wars

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#depleted #distractions #feeling #get #hands

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#distraction #form #materialism #only #true

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

#being #between #difference #distraction #fulfillment

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#common #common goal #distractions #goal #group

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#back #certain #choose #distractions #least

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #distractions #down #good #how

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#compassion #distraction #embrace #engage #feel

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big #cleaned #distractions #dramas #fixed