I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1. 35].
Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.
Reading (. . . ) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.
Love, you drive me to distraction.
At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
Freedom from mental distraction equals power.
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction.
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer. . . and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.
Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.
All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.