"What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward."
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"The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions."
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"I am of Russian-Jewish distraction."
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"When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives."
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"If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state."
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"Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship"
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"Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction."
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"The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions."
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"If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction."
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"I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger."
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"Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction."
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"I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me."
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"Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea."
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"I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences."
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"Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will provoke me - I know he will provoke me! And there are times when I simply refuse to be provoked. And the other times you have to use that superior knowledge to carry on at work without distraction, and don't allow yourself to be distracted."
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