Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?"
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Distracted
40 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Distracted from distraction by distraction"
LeBron James
Professional Basketball Player
"I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome."
Patti Smith
Musician
"Everything distracted me, but most of all myself."
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"Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?"
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"He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes."
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"One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted."
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"You need to be distracted."
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"I'm a very distracted person."
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"I can't read my poem "Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle" without thinking of Seattle, where the events of the poem took place, and I can't read "In Defense of the Semicolon" without thinking of Toronto - but why should that matter to anyone else? If another reader imagines "In Defense of the Semicolon" taking place in New Orleans, great."
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