Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.
Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.
People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.
It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.
I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.
We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.
The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
