125 Distraction Quotes To Inspire You To Focus On Your Goals

“Attachment of anything is the distraction of everything.” – Anand Thakur

“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline because you need to be alone to find out anything.” – Vivienne Westwood

“Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.” – Helen Mirren

“Study and practice as much as you can. There will be distractions, such as friends or family wanting your time and attention, but make sure your work doesn’t suffer.” – Dana Levin

“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” – Adam Hochschild

“A mind that is worried about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.” – Cheng Yen

“You can’t do big things if you’re distracted by small things.”

“Be aware when distractions come your way. You’ll know it’s a distraction when you stop doing what you’re supposed to be doing and find yourself pondering things that have no value.” – Beverly R. Imes

“Distraction is a killer of dreams, visions and goals.” – Topsy Gift

“I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere.” – Bruce Lee

“Very powerful distraction nowadays are the notification sounds from social media.” – Giridharan K

“Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.” – Sharon Salzberg

“Distractions destroy action. If it’s not moving you towards your purpose, leave it alone.” – Jermaine Riley

“O woman, perfect woman! what distraction was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!” – John Fletcher

“If you commit to nothing, you’re distracted by everything.”

“Thinking is the ultimate distraction, the ultimate escape from reality.” – Marty Rubin

“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however if you can do both things its fantastic.” – Bryan Adams

“Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.” – Alan Cohen

“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other’s ‘full attention’. They grew up in a culture of distraction.” – Sherry Turkle

“I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction.” – Seth Godin

“Messes create distraction. And distraction reduces your power to achieve every goal you set.” – Robin Sharma

“Technology is not a distraction, but it is the mind which consider it for the that.”

“Advertising is 48% distraction; 4% information; and 48% manipulation.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.” – Cornel West

“Competition isn’t ruining your business. Distractions are.” – Robin Sharma

“I needed something—the distraction of another life—to alleviate fear.” – Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“We fight too many battles that don’t matter. If the battle is not between you and your destiny, then it is a distraction. You have to learn to let things go.” – Joel Osteen

“Distractions are easy to find and hard to leave!”

“Distraction: Just another meaningless message to keep you from paying attention to all of the issues that really matter.”

“You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That’s all I want. That’s all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.” – Larry Fitzgerald

“An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.” – Robin Sharma

“Distraction and Focus: Distraction is death but focus is life. Distraction is illness but focus is health. Distraction is poverty but focus is wealth. Distraction leaves regret but focus gives happiness. Distraction stoops us to low but focus help us going high. Distraction is reason for failure but focus is need ...

... for success.”

“A distracted existence leads us to no goal.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If Satan cannot have your heart, he’ll do his best to distract it.”

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” – Julio Cortázar

“When people can’t bury themselves with work, they can’t run away from their feelings and all it needs is a little free time to reveal who they are.” – Sarvesh Jain

“The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.” – Noam Chomsky

“The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.” – Aristotle

“Where your attention goes, your time goes.”

“Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.” – E. Habib

“Every great waste of time begins with a small distraction.”

“Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it’s an indulgence; a distraction. You can’t live in a distraction.” – Gulzar

“The moment of drifting into thought has been clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.” – Glen Hansard

“Being distracted keeps your focus away from achieving your goals and overcoming your limitations.”

“The result of information overload is usually a distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.” – Zig Ziglar

“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

“Stop getting distracted by things and people that have nothing to do with your goals.”

“The Internet is a big distraction. It’s distracting, it’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.” – Ray Bradbury

“Distracted from distraction by distraction.” – T. S. Eliot

“Your real competition is your distraction.”

“The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add ...

... in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.” – Tom Vanderbilt

“Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.” – Sarah Blake

“These distractions will remain only till you fail altogether. So just let it go and build your life as such you become an unavoidable distraction for them.”

“The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.” – Stephen Baxter

“Disconnect from everything long enough to see if it feeds your soul or if it’s a distraction. What’s deeply connected will always remain.” – Maryam Hasnaa

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Viktor Frankl

“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.” – Talib Kweli

“Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you’re traveling in.” – Sam Owen

“Children are not distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis

“Be the motivation. Not the distraction.” – Rob Hill Sr

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who ...

... want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” – C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.” – Plautus

“You are my addiction. You are my muse. My worst distraction. My poetry & hues” – Avijeet Das

“When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.” – Anne Katherine

“You can always find a distraction if you’re looking for one.” – Tom Kite

“When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is always, ‘Do fewer things,’ it’s true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that’s taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.” – Evan Williams

“You are my distraction now, whether you want it or not. So take responsibility for it.” – Melanie Sargsian, Lovember: A Collection of Short Love Stories

“People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing at any point in time is distraction.” – David Allen

“We are not that busy; we are just distracted.” – Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula

“Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.” – Neil Gaiman

“In any academic field, it’s either fall in love with books and avoid engaging in emotional affairs with people, or vice versa, but you can’t possibly focus on both at the same time because love is so powerful that it can cause distraction.” – Godwin Elijah

“Love is your one and only goal everything else is a distraction.” – J.R. Incer, Boost Your Brainpower 365

“The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.” – Warren Buffett

“Be careful because sometimes distractions can come into your life dressed as love and attention when it’s in fact a distraction.” – Scarlet Jei Saoirse

“Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand – an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb. Nature’s own exceeding peace, which passes understanding. That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ...

... ourselves.” – Richard Maurice Bucke

“Life has become a major distraction from my cell phone.”

“I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.” – Heath Ledger

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Las Vegas is about distraction.” – James Turrel

“My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.” – Toni Morrison

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.” – Orhan Pamuk

“We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.” – Sri Aurobindo

“To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.” – Dan Millman

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” – Christopher Columbus

“Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction-and then I run away to New York, where I have a life.” – Malcolm Mclaren

“If the enemy can distract you from your time alone with God, then he can isolate you from the help that comes from God alone.”

“Focus, focus, consolidated focus. Beware of distraction.” – Ikechukwu Joseph

“When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.” – Ramana Maharshi

“Don’t let other people distract you from your course. It is your life, not theirs. You need to be committed and true to yourself.”

“Meditation quarantines distractions.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen

“Say ‘no’ to distraction so you can say ‘yes’ to your destiny.” – Thema Davis

“Truly paying attention to something or someone makes it or them seem as big as the universe.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.” – Sharon Salzberg

“Be so busy improving yourself that you don’t have time to pay attention to anything or anyone that distracts you from your growth.”

“Don’t let mediocrity distract you from greatness.” – Asad Meah

“Be about actions, not distractions.”

“Don’t allow distractions and temptations misguide you & satisfy you for a brief moment. Be strong & stay focused.” – Genereux Philip

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

“Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.” – Saul Bellow

“I love the sensation of being out in the open air, far away from all the distractions of modern life.” – Paul Hollywood

“Stop getting distracted by things that have nothing to do with your goals.”

“Listen to your inner voice and never let the distraction of the crowd discolour your poise.” – Israelmore Ayivor

“Never let anyone or anything distract you from noticing how amazing you are.” – Edmond Mbiak

“Less distraction, more focus. Less gossip, more encouragement. Less past, more future. Less toxicity, more positivity.” – Robin Sharma

“Starve your distractions, feed your focus.”

“Avoid distractions. The more you stop participating in pointless activities, the more time you free up to better yourself.”

“Try avoiding the attraction of distraction.”

“Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.” – Marilyn Vos Savant

“In nature, every distraction is an inspiration.” – Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” – Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“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.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“A little distraction we need, to destroy what we believe.” – Priyanshu

“Are you healed or just distracted? Don’t confuse the two.” – Steve Maraboli

“I would put a picture here but it would just distract you.”

“Acclaim is a distraction.” – James Broughton

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.” – Orhan Pamuk

“One man’s distraction is another man’s refuge.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen

“Take an occasional holiday from what you love or you’ll end up hating what you love.” – Marty Rubin

“I don’t think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.” – Tom Noonan

“You are my favorite distraction.”

“Love, you drive me to distraction.” – Dave Matthews

“I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.” – Danny Aiello

“TV is a distraction from being awesome.” – James Blacker